Extracting string between <title> and </title> using PHP [duplicate]

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I am trying to run through a hundred different html files on my server, and extract the titles for use in another php file.

For reference:

    <title>Generic Test Page</title>

What I need is a function that will return the string "Generic Test Page" and stick that into a global variable.

What I am doing right now is simply reading the file into an array called $lines. Foreach $lines as $line, I am testing for the string < title> ... but how do I extract only what's between the > and < /title?

My trouble is that sometimes the original developer decided to elaborate on the title: < title name=title cl开发者_开发知识库ass=title1>, or he put it on three lines instead of one. What in the world? So I can't just strip the first seven characters and the last eight characters. Which would be so nice...

Thank you!!

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You need to use something like PHP Simple Dom Parser

function get_page_title($html_file) {
  $html = file_get_html($html_file);
  $title = $html->find('title', 0)->plaintext;
  return $title;
}

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$line = each line.

 $pattern ='/<title[^>]*>(.*?)<\/title>/is';
 if( preg_match($pattern,$line,$match) )
   return trim($match[1]); # your title !

or just use the pattern on the whole html and return the match.

or use something scurker has suggested.

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You should use a regular expression to extract the inner part. More info here