PREG Issue

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;
?> 

PHP:

Thanks

 

Remove this between the <title> tags: \/

This would match a forward slash followed by the </title> tag, which is most likely causing the error.

Other than that, it works.

 

Thanks, that works fine.