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[Bioshox]

Hey guys,

I've built a web directory just for pure practice, and for some strange reason the code I've built to get the webpage title only works on some websites, here is the code I'm using:

function getTitle($link){
    $str = file_get_contents($link);    if(strlen($str)>0){        preg_match("/\<title\>(.*)\<\/title\>/",$str,$title);        return $title[1];    }}

It works for some webpages, other it doesn't, when I try codecall.net it gives the error 301 Moved Permanently...

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Thanks guys, all help is appreciated.

[Orjan]

It depends on the fact that many web sites automatically redirects to another URL, like http://www.codecall.net becomes http://forum.codecall.net/forum.php. What you can do is to use for example cURL instead of file_get_contents() and there check the return code (301, 200, 404 etc) and act on the code.