Comments on: Parsing html head section with empty result http://www.finalwebsites.com/blog/script-support/parsing-html-head-section-with-empty-result/ Discussions about PHP, jQuery, SEO & general web development Mon, 05 Nov 2012 22:56:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Olaf http://www.finalwebsites.com/blog/script-support/parsing-html-head-section-with-empty-result/#comment-11 Olaf Sun, 18 Sep 2011 12:30:56 +0000 http://www.finalwebsites.com/blog/?p=129#comment-11 Hello,

The html parser snippet is very simple and is more an example. The validation pattern will test the meta tags for values with double quotes. If the target page is using single quotes the regex pattern will return an empty value.

Try this pattern for the meta pattern:

if (eregi("<meta name=['\"]description['\"] content=['\"](.*)['\"]([[:space:]]?/)?>", $val, $descr)) {
            $meta_descr = $descr[1];
            $is_descr = true;
        }
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