PHP to pull Meta tag description code help

[ITahmed]

I am trying to create a php app, the user needs to be able to type the url to get the meta tag description from the url (clean)
One of my friend developer was able to get it in VB script which does not help me. I could not get anywhere in doing it in PHP. can you help.
Thanks
Ahmed

[GamePhreak]

Eh?

So the user types in a URL and automatically, the Meta description that is on that page is retrieved?



if(preg_match('@<meta[^>\r\n]*?name=("?)description\\1[^>\r\n]*?content=("?)(.*?)\\2[^>\r\n]*?/?>@', $file = file_get_contents($_POST['url']), $matches)) echo $matches[3];
else echo 'No description!';


That's very rough code and hasn't been tested, so try it out and tell me how it works or if it even does what you need.

Or, if you need each of the items in the description in an array:



if(preg_match('@<meta[^>\r\n]*?name=("?)description\\1[^>\r\n]*?content=("?)(.*?)\\2[^>\r\n]*?/?>@', $file = file_get_contents($_POST['url']), $matches)) $description = explode($matches[3], ',');
else $description = false;

[Tree]

You could do an fopen and then get all the source from meta tags

[ITahmed]

I will try that.... Thank you... will let you know.... :)

[ITahmed]

I had to tweak minor things, but it worked like a charm. YOU ROCK. Thank you it was driving me crazy.