"R. Elsenaar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> To get the title of an external page to put into a link, has somebody did
> that already and can give me some hints for this trick
>
> Robert
>
>
// Your question managed to spark my interest and get me to write this...
//
// WARNING: If you are accepting user input for the page URL, you will
// want to validate it before passing it to this function.
//
// I use fopen in order to (hopefully) not need to download the entire
// page when we only want something that's likely to be in the first
// few lines.
//
// This is not guarunteed to get the right title, esp. for dynamic pages
// or anything
// TEST 1: <title>First Test</title>
// TEST 2: <head><title>Second Test</title></head>
// TEST 3: <head><title>Second Test</title></title>
// This function will return the filename or URL of the page if:
// 1. The page has no <title>...</title> tags.
// 2. The page cannot be opened.
// Consider expanding from this concept. It is not extensively tested.
function get_page_title($page) {
$contents = implode(' ', file($page));
if(!$contents) return($page); // Something didn't work right.
if(eregi('<title[^>]*>([^<]*)</title[^>]*>', $contents, $regs)) {
return(trim(ereg_replace('[[:space:]]+', ' ', $regs[1])));
}
return($page);
}
echo get_page_title($path_to_page);
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