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

[phpforfun]

This one should be easy to explain.

When I type in http:/ /google.com (without the space), here, on code call, it comes out as Google..

whats the code to take the name of the page, not the URL?

after some thought, im gonna take a shot in the dark.

you use the readfile command to read the source of the file
then use preg match to get whatever is between the <title></title> tags
then echo it?

Tried these

PHP Code:

<?
$viewsource="http://google.com";

        $lines = file("$viewsource");

        foreach ($lines as $line_num => $line) {
         if (stristr($lines,"<title>")){
            $title2=strip_tags($lines);
            Echo $title2;
         }

        }



?>

PHP Code:

<?
      $file=fopen("http://google.com",r);
    $read = fgets($file,255); 
         if (stristr($file,"<title>")){
            $title=strip_tags($read);
         }
      fclose($file);

Echo $title;
?>

No luck, am I close?

[Jordan]

You have the concept correct, just need to work on your code a bit.

[phpforfun]

which one do you like more? first one or second one, lol

[John]

PHP Code:

<?php
$content = file_get_contents("http://www.google.com");
preg_match('#<title>(.*?)</title>#', $content, $title);
$title[1];
?>

[Xav]

What does the function preg_match() do? Does this mean you have to download the entire webpage before you can extract the title?

[phpforfun]

Originally Posted by John

PHP Code:

<?php
$content = file_get_contents("http://www.google.com");
preg_match('#<title>(.*?)</title>#', $content, $title);
$title[1];
?>

Wow! Thanks john.

working on my new proxy.
test

The first AnalyzeThatHost sets Analyze That Host as a variable, then searches for the title, and searches for the shortcut icon, and if it has one, it uses it as the image..

not too bad?

[John]

Originally Posted by Xav

What does the function preg_match() do? Does this mean you have to download the entire webpage before you can extract the title?

preg_match is a function to parse content using a regular expression. It can be used to parse websites (html) or plain text documents.

[Xav]

So you need to download the entire page first, then parse out the <title> tags? Does this slow things down?

[John]

Originally Posted by Xav

So you need to download the entire page first, then parse out the <title> tags? Does this slow things down?

There's no faster way to do it.

[Xav]

Can't you just, like, read a certain amount, until you reach the <title> tags?