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I wrote (like 10,000,000 others) a script to recursively read and list the contents of directories. However, when I print the results to the screen I want to include the contents of the <title></title> block and/or the first nn words in the <body></body> (somewhat like the results from a search engine).

 

How do I read specific, limited content from an HTML file?

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<?php

function getHTMLTitleAndBody($fileName)
{
    //Read the HTML content
$content = file_get_contents($fileName);

    //Extract the title
    preg_match("/<title[^>]*>(.*)<\/title>/is", $content, $titleMatch);
    $result->title = $titleMatch[1];

    //Extract words from body up to X number of characters
preg_match("/<body[^>]*>(.*)<\/body>/is", $content, $bodyMatch);
$result->body  = array_shift(explode("\n", wordwrap(strip_tags(trim($bodyMatch[1])), 30)));

return $result;
}

$file = "temp.htm";
$results = getHTMLTitleAndBody($file);

echo "<b>Title:</b> {$results->title}<br><br>\n";
echo "<b>Body:</b> {$results->body}";

?>

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