How can I get the title of an HTML page using php?

Question

How can I get the title of an HTML page using php? I've made a php web crawler and I want to implement this feature into my crawler so that it will have the name of the page and the url. Thanks in advance. Possibly using preg_match.

Solution

Would this help?

$myURL = 'http://www.google.com';
if (preg_match(
        '/<title>(.+)<\/title>/',
        file_get_contents($myURL),$matches) 
    && isset($matches[1] )
   $title = $matches[1];
else
   $title = "Not Found";

Comments

[ARUN]

This function is not working for some urls. for example : marketwired.com/press-release/…

[shasi kanth]

This can help: stackoverflow.com/questions/399332/…