Get the title of the url

Experts,

I am looking for a code snippet that can get me the title of the url I enter.

something like if I pass
http://www.go4expert.com/showthread.php?t=2

It should return Go4Expert - Begining with PHP

I have checked the internet and seen that curl of php can be useful but could not use it in a very good sense as I am not a PHP expert.

 

We can use Regular Expressions to get the title of a page, see the PHP code snippet below which extracts the title of page who's URL you specify.

PHP:

$url = "http://www.go4expert.com/showthread.php?t=2";
$file = file($url);
$file = implode("",$file);

if(preg_match("/<title>(.+)<\/title>/i",$file,$m))
    print "The title of $url is <b>$m[1]";
else
    print "The page doesn't have a title tag";