How to take the true name of the site from the URL

[John]

Whether you read the first X bytes or the whole file won't make any difference - you still have to create a connection with the remote server. Once you made the connection, you have the entire page content.

[phpforfun]

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works great john!!

PHP Code:

    <?
    if(isset($_POST['url'])){
        $url = $_POST['url'];
        $content = file_get_contents("$url");
        preg_match('#<title>(.*?)</title>#', $content, $title);
        $title = $title[1];
        if(preg_match('#<link rel="shortcut" href="(.*?)"#', $content)){
            preg_match('#<link rel="shortcut" href="(.*?)"#', $content, $shortcut);
        }
        if(preg_match('#<link rel="shortcut icon" href="(.*?)"#', $content)){
            preg_match('#<link rel="shortcut icon" href="(.*?)"#', $content, $shortcut);
        }
        
        $shortcut = $shortcut[1];
        $shortcut = ereg_replace("$url", '', $shortcut);
        $titlelength = strlen($atitle);
        if($titlelength > 17){
            $shorttitle = substr($atitle,0,14);
            $atitle = "$shorttitle...";
        }
        if(empty($shortcut)){
            $shortcut = "No Shortcut Icon found";
        }

        $goto = str_replace("http", "", $url);
        Echo "$url<br />$title<br />$shortcut";
    }
    ?>

Thats my test code, am I using the ereg replace wrong? because if you type in toasted penguin, it still has 'http://toastedpenguin.com' in the shortcut text

Edit, I dont think that way is the best way to get the shortcut icon, I need to search for '.ico' and get the image that uses that extension somehow

[John]

I'm not 100% sure on this, but I believe every website uses favicon.ico, so all you would need to do is check if that exists. Also, if your regular expression finds more than one match, your expected match might not be index one.

[phpforfun]

yeah, I need to search for ".ico", get get the full path to it..

Let me explain what im trying to do, basicly im making a virtual browser, that you can login to through any computer, it will emulate firefox, there fore, I want the bookmarks bar, so im trying to get it to get the real .ico and show it, as well as the title of the page.

Also, For the stop button, what I plan on doing is, use this script (Building a Status Bar into a Chromeless Window), the issue is, it needs all the images in a page and throw them in the head of the page in the script, can you help me with a loop to echo each image?

im not sure how to use the 'for' command with preg match for each '<img src='