Re: [!NEWBIE ALERT!] fread() question

worked like a champ! thanks! "Chris Hayes" <chayes@antenna.nl> wrote in message news:5.1.1.6.0.20030224003758.01bfdd48@pop4.antenna.nl... > 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; > > >