get the title of a page

Question

i am getting the title of a page using the following

$urlContents = file_get_contents("$url");
preg_match("/<title>(.*)<\/title>/i", $urlContents, $matches);

the problem i am having is one of the sites the title is on 3 lines

<head id="head"><title>
    title goes here
</title><meta name="description" content="meta description" />

this is for a basic onpage seo tool i am writing, is there a better way i can get the title of a page?

Thank you

Already answered http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14027877/how-to-get-page-title-in-php — wmfrancia, Aug 12 '13 at 20:07

score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited Aug 12 '13 at 21:55

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How about just using plain js

var title = document.title

Or jquery

var title = $("head title")[0];

edited Aug 12 '13 at 21:55

jh314

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answered Aug 12 '13 at 20:06

Joe Buckle

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thanks for the reply its for an external website i have managed to find my answer here http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4348912/get-title-of-website-via-link thank you – Aug 12 '13 at 20:13

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:28

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i found my answer here

Get title of website via link

$urlContents = file_get_contents("http://example.com/");

$dom = new DOMDocument();
@$dom->loadHTML($urlContents);

$title = $dom->getElementsByTagName('title');

print($title->item(0)->nodeValue . "\n"); // "Example Web Page"

thank you

edited May 23 '17 at 12:28

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answered Aug 12 '13 at 20:14

score -1 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 19 '19 at 05:14

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I think there are character limits for the title. So title should not be in three lines. I have checked in Yoast plugin. It also saying the same. Then what is the purpose of getting three line seo title.

answered Feb 19 '19 at 05:14

Shilpa

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get the title of a page

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