extracting title tag.....plz help

drmanny

Hi,
some one just helped me set up this section on my religoius educational website.
http://www.allaboutsikhs.com/amrit/index.php
This has almost 2300 hymns (htm) pages indexed through a mysql table. I need to add some code on the title tag of my php page to extract the title tag on the htm page when that page is called for.
i hope you guys are getting what i am trying to say??
i am a newbie and the guy who helped me is also stumped?
if you go on the page above, click on an english alphabet which takes you that index and click on any number , which takes you to the .htm file, and look at the source and tell me how can i get the title tag to show

thanks
Manny

MrAlaska

It gets kind of awkward when you are storing all your data in files. I would put the titles in the database, and while I was at it I would transfer ALL the data into the database then generate the hymns pages on the fly.

To extract the title, though, you could use something along these lines:

<?php
$page="your_file.ext";
$fcontents = file($page);
foreach($fcontents as $line){
	if (eregi ("<title>(.*)</title>", $line, $out)) {
		$title=$out[1];
		break;
	}
}
?>

drmanny

hi, could not post all the data to database as it has content with 2 languages
thanks,
Manny

awolfe_ii

I have exactly the same objective.

The files I'm presenting do not have dynamic content, I'm writing them myself in regular HTML editors. I want to show the title in a listing of the files.

I'm going to try this, but... can I rely on the TITLE always being on a single line?

leatherback

Hey DrManny,

The data being in 2 languages is not a problem at all: Just add another colum to the table, stating 'language', and you are homefree to use as many languages as you want!