Obtaining Page Title

[Maverickb7]

I was wondering if someone could tell me the easiest way to obtaining the page title of a specific url? I've tried to use fopen and those functions but I got the below error.

 

Warning: fopen() [function.fopen]: URL file-access is disabled in the server configuration in /home/web/ute.php on line 2

[fert]

your host has disabled allow_url_fopen and th only other way that I know of to get the contents of a page is with cURL

[Maverickb7]

How would I go about doing that? I did a quick google search and haven't been able to find any examples that would push me in the right direction.

[fert]

There are plenty of examples on the php site: http://us3.php.net/manual/en/ref.curl.php

[Maverickb7]

Alright. I understand they have lots of examples but I don't see anything that shows me how to obtain the page title. The word "title" doesn't even show up on that page.

[fert]

to extract the title you'll need to use Regex to parse the info out.

[Maverickb7]

Alright i'm trying to get my host to enable url_fopen but until then I still have to find a work around. I'm searching for these terms on google and I'm not coming up with many helpful examples. What would I search for using google? Sorry if I'm coming off as a n00b, just trying to get my head in this stuff.

[jitesh]

I have write a scripts

 

Test it

 

<?php

ob_start();

readfile('http://www.yahoo.com');

$con = ob_get_clean();

$filecontents = htmlentities($con);

echo substr($filecontents,strpos($filecontents,"<title>")+13,(strpos($filecontents,"</title>")-strpos($filecontents,"<title>")-13));

 

?>

[Maverickb7]

I'll give your code a try. I actually coded something already using CURL like the above user suggested. After doing some research I managed to put together some code that works PERFECt. Thanks everyone!

[jitesh]

<?php

ob_start();

readfile('http://www.yahoo.com');

$con = ob_get_clean();

$filecontents = strtolower(htmlentities($con));

echo substr($filecontents,strpos($filecontents,"<title>")+13,(strpos($filecontents,"</title>")-strpos($filecontents,"<title>")-13));

 

?>

[jitesh]

// For Greter version of PHP

 

function get_string_between($string, $start, $end){

        $string = " ".$string;

        $ini = strripos($string,$start);

        if ($ini == 0) return "";

        $ini += strlen($start); 

        $len = strripos($string,$end,$ini) - $ini;

        return substr($string,$ini,$len);

}

ob_start();

readfile('http://www.rediff.com');

$con = ob_get_clean();

$filecontents = htmlentities($con);

echo get_string_between($filecontents,"<title>","</title>");