What was suggested will work fine if the <title> and </title> are on the same line. If someone writes the file such as
<title> My Title </title> Then it will not match it. If this is a possibility for you, you'll want to add an 's' modifier onto your pattern. $pattern="/<title>(.*)<\/title>/is"; ---John W. Holmes... PHP Architect - A monthly magazine for PHP Professionals. Get your copy today. http://www.phparch.com/ > -----Original Message----- > From: Levi Zander [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, February 23, 2003 9:26 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [PHP] [!NEWBIE ALERT!] fread() question > > worked like a champ! thanks! > > > "Chris Hayes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > At 00:05 24-2-2003, you wrote: > > >trying to parse a URL and write html code to a file, then search the > file > > >for a string between <TITLE> ... </TITLE> how would I implement the > fread > > >function below, and regular expressions to read the specific conent. > thx > > > > > >or is there a php function that can return the TITLE of a URL? > > > > > ><?php > > >$string = implode("", file($url)); > > >$fp = fopen("temp.txt", "w"); > > >fwrite($fp, $string); > > >fclose($fp); > > > > i would read in the entire file, and use a 'regular expression' such as > > ereg() http://nl.php.net/manual/nl/function.ereg.php explained on > > http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/dario19990616.php3 > > > > or preg_match http://nl.php.net/manual/nl/function.preg-match.php > > > > I think this may work, with the $string from your code: > > $pattern="/<title>(.*)<\/title>/i"; > > preg_match($pattern, $string, $matches); > > $title=$matches[1]; > > echo $title; > > > > > > > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
