Re: Search question ..

From: "Curt Zirzow" <curt@zirzow.dyndns.org> > * Thus wrote James Hatridge (James.Hatridge@epost.de): > > I've got a search page written for my web site. I can find the html page I > > want by keyword. Now I need to get the title of that page in to a variable. > > In other words I have a file name, for example Summerbulletin.html. I now > > need to get the line "<title> Summer 2003 </title>" in to a > > variable. How do > > I tell html or PHP what I want? (I hope that I am understandable, I'm still > > new at this. ) > > > > Right now I output the search results in to a chart that shows > > "Summerbulletin.html". What I would like to show is "Summer 2003". > > preg_match('#\<title\>(.*)\</title\>#im', $text, $matches): I don't think you have to escape the < and > characters, do you? Also, what's the 'm' modifier for? (I know what it does, why are you using it here?) Also, if there's ever a case where could have <title> My Title </title> i.e. things spread over multiple lines, then you'll need: preg_match('#<title>(.*)</title>#is',$text,$matches); or, even better (ungreedy) preg_match('#<title>([^<]+)</title>#i',$text,$matches); The 's' modifier will allow you to match the title even though it's over multiple lines with the first regex example. It's not needed in the second. ---John Holmes...