jakebur01 Posted May 1, 2008 Share Posted May 1, 2008 I am trying to capture the description from a remote url. I am currently retrieving the info between <head> and </head>. How do I get the ***<meta name="Description" content=""> **** information stored into a variable? $config['url'] = "http://www.walmart.com"; $config['start_tag'] = "<head>"; $config['end_tag'] = "</head>"; $config['show_tags'] = 1; class grabber { var $error = ''; var $html = ''; function grabhtml( $url, $start, $end ) { $file = file_get_contents( $url ); if( $file ) { if( preg_match_all( "#$start(.*?)$end#s", $file, $match ) ) { $this->html = $match; } else { $this->error = "Tags cannot be found."; } } else { $this->error = "Site cannot be found!"; } } function strip( $html, $show, $start, $end ) { if( !$show ) { $html = str_replace( $start, "", $html ); $html = str_replace( $end, "", $html ); return $html; } else { return $html; } } } $grab = new grabber; $grab->grabhtml( $config['url'], $config['start_tag'], $config['end_tag'] ); echo $grab->error; foreach( $grab->html[0] as $html ) { echo htmlspecialchars( $grab->strip( $html, $config['show_tags'], $config['start_tag'], $config['end_tag'] ) ) . "<br>"; } Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/103786-retrieving-description-from-remote-url/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
jakebur01 Posted May 1, 2008 Author Share Posted May 1, 2008 Ok, I've stored the outputing html into a variable named $sammy. How do I seperate the <meta name="Description" content=""> from the variable? Thanks, Jake foreach( $grab->html[0] as $html ) { $sammy= htmlspecialchars( $grab->strip( $html, $config['show_tags'], $config['start_tag'], $config['end_tag'] ) ) . "<br><br>"; echo "$sammy"; } Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/103786-retrieving-description-from-remote-url/#findComment-531361 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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