Could do with a little help with this preg_match()

Hi,
I am wanting to do a simple extraction of the
three key header elements from a web page namely these:


Is the preg_match() function the best way to find them and put them into variables ?

If they are not found of the web page I would like to fill the relevant variable with "Not found".

I have wriiten this code but I am not sure if it is the best approach or if the logic is correct.

Any suggestions, corrections most welcome. :)

re: Could do with a little help with this preg_match()

question number one: does it work?

re: Could do with a little help with this preg_match()

That a great question.

I couldn't test it cos of server problems,

Now back on line :)

From the code below, I get this result:

Warning: preg_match() [function.preg-match]: Unknown modifier 't' in /home/guru54gt5/public_html/sys/get_google.php on line 130

Title: None found
Descrip: 0
Keys: 0

Must be something in the first preg_match() I guess.

re: Could do with a little help with this preg_match()

I changed it and got rid of the errors
but I am still not picking up content.

this is what I have:

Of course my output is:
any ideas ??

re: Could do with a little help with this preg_match()

Ah - the problem is that the forward slash in </title> closes the regular expression pattern (if you notice that the opening delimiter is also the forward slash character, this will make sense). So then PHP sees the following 't' as being a modifier (a character that follows the closing delimiter and has some effect on the pattern).

So, to solve this you could either

• change the delimiters to some other character (I generally use #)
• or, escape the forward slash with a back-slask; </title> would become <\/title>

Mark.

re: Could do with a little help with this preg_match()

Thanks Markus,
But I beat you to it ;-)

I fixed that and posted the updated version.

Any idea why I don't pick up the data ?