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PHP get page title function

Submitted by php5 on Fri, 06/19/2009 - 13:25

PHP's get_meta_tags function can extract meta-description, meta-keywords etc but cannot find title of the page. Therefore I use following function to catch title of a remote url or a local xhtml file.

function get_page_title($url){

	if( !($data = file_get_contents($url)) ) return false;

	if( preg_match("#<title>(.+)<\/title>#iU", $data, $t))  {
		return trim($t[1]);
	} else {
		return false;
	}
}
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Change your user agent / browser / client PHP

Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 06/19/2009 - 14:10.

Change your user agent / browser / client to avoid being blocked from remote server:

ini_set('user_agent', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.11) Gecko/2009060215 Firefox/3.0.11');

Using U (ungreedy) is a good

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 01/09/2011 - 15:44.

Using U (ungreedy) is a good idea because you could get multiple title parts from a page.

Very helpful method..

Submitted by Asif Iqbal (not verified) on Thu, 03/03/2011 - 07:33.

Hello,

Awesome method. I just wanted to get title and you solved my problem.. Thank you very much

Thanks

Submitted by Nehal (not verified) on Wed, 10/12/2011 - 08:08.

Thanks, I am looking for this option, u save my day.

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