PREG Issue

[asgsoft]

Hi

I've been trying to understnad preg for a while now and don't know where I am going wrong with this:

<?php
function getweb($website)
{
   if(!$ch = curl_init($website)) {
    echo "Could not connect to $website";
       return;
   }
   curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
   curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
   $output = curl_exec($ch);
   curl_close ($ch);
   return $output;
}

$total = getweb('http://www.thewebmasterstool.com/'); 
    $match_expression = '/<title>(.*?)\/<\/title>/i';
    preg_match($match_expression,$total,$matches); 
$asd =  strip_tags($matches[1]);
echo $asd;
?>

Thanks

 

[Daniel]

That site didn't even load in Firefox for me...

But here's my go, with my own get_page

  <?php

function get_page($url, $timeout="", $ref="", $user="")
  {   
  /* This function grabs the content of a page using cURL if it's available, or file_get_contents if it's not.
  Example usage: echo get_contents("http://www.google.com","IE7 MSIE","",5); */
   if (!function_exists('curl_init') or !function_exists('curl_exec')) { 
    return file_get_contents($url);
    } else {    
    if (!$timeout or $timeout == 0) { $timeout = 10; /* No infinite pages please */ }
    if (!$user) { $user = "Microsoft Internet Exploder"; }
    if (!$ref) { $ref = "http://www.google.com/search?q=".rand(0,1000)."+facts&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8"; }
    $ch = curl_init();  
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);    
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_REFERER, $ref);    
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $user);        
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);    
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, $timeout);    
    $output = curl_exec($ch);    
    curl_close($ch);    
    return $output;   
  } } 

$total = get_page("http://danltn.com/",60); 
$match_expression = '/<title>(.*)<\/title>/';
preg_match($match_expression,$total,$matches); 
$tag = $matches[1];
echo $tag;

?>