Embedding content from user submitted URL

Question

I am developing a PHP based website. I would like to grab the web page title, content and thumb from any URL submitted by a user. I am not sure how I should proceed. If possible I would like to avoid any third party platform such as Embed. Could you please help? Cheers.

Answer 1

You must get source of entered web url. And parse it with regex. For get source code:

file_get_contents();

After use regex parse:

preg_match();

detail of functions:

• http://php.net/manual/en/function.preg-match.php
• http://www.w3schools.com/php/func_filesystem_file_get_contents.asp