I have a list of links that are all articles. I am trying to use PHP to extract the title and the description from all of them at once. I also want the article title to be hyperlink to the URL and the description to be displayed below it in italics.
My issue is this: it works when I do it for one link, but when I try multiple links or even if I duplicate the code and manually paste in each link, it doesn't work. Below is my code that I have that works for one link. Any ideas?
<html>
<a href="http://bit.ly/18EFx87">
<b><?php
function getTitle($Url){
$str = file_get_contents($Url);
if(strlen($str)>0){
preg_match("/\<title\>(.*)\<\/title\>/",$str,$title);
return $title[1];
}
}
echo getTitle("http://bit.ly/18EFx87");
?></b><br>
</a>
<i><?php
$tags = get_meta_tags('http://bit.ly/18EFx87');
echo $tags['description'];
?></i>
</html>
I assume you mean multiple URLs, then something like this will work. :
<html>
<?php
function getTitle($url){
@$str = file_get_contents($url); // suppressing the warning
if(strlen($str)>0){
preg_match("/\<title\>(.*)\<\/title\>/",$str,$title);
return $title[1];
} else {
return false;
}
}
$urls = array('http://bit.ly/18EFx87', 'url2');
foreach($urls as $url)
{
$title = getTitle($url);
if($title === false)
{
continue;
}
echo '<a href="' . $url . '"><b>';
echo $title;
echo '</b></a><br><i>';
$tags = get_meta_tags($url);
echo $tags['description'] . '</i>';
}
?>
</html>