Question

I’m trying to find a away to extract a site title from a URL entered into a field in PHP. For example, if the user were to enter the URL http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/05/sports/baseball/05series.html, I would want “New York Times” or “NY Times” or something along those lines.

I know it’s fairly easy to extract the title of the WINDOW… for example, the URL I linked would have the title “Yankees 7, Phillies 3 – Back on Top….”, but this is exactly what I don’t want.

For clarification, this is for adding sources to a quote. I want to be able to add a source to quotes without a huge page URL and not just a link that says “Source”.

Can anyone help me with this? Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

$source = parse_url('http://www.nytimes.com/....', PHP_URL_HOST); // www.nytimes.com