<?php  if ( ! defined('BASEPATH')) exit('No direct script access allowed');

$config['protocol'] = 'smtp';
$config['smtp_host'] = 'localhost';

<?php  if ( ! defined('BASEPATH')) exit('No direct script access allowed');

$config['protocol'] = 'smtp';
$config['smtp_host'] = 'localhost';
$config['email_address'] = 'sender@localhost.com';
$config['email_name'] = 'Localhost test';

<?php
class Test_Mail extends Controller {
function Test_Mail()
{
parent::Controller();
}	
function index()
{
// get config data
$from = $this->config->item('email_address', 'email');
$from_name = $this->config->item('email_name', 'email');
$to = 'tildemark@localhost.com'; 
$to_name = "To Name";
// we load the email library and send a mail
$this->load->library('email');
$this->email->from($from, $from_name);
$this->email->to($to, $to_name);
$this->email->subject('Email subject');
$this->email->message('Testing the email class.');
$this->email->send();
//to debug we can use print_debugger()
echo $this->email->print_debugger();
}
}

the code above returns the title of an html page.

1) Locate the following files:
C:\Program Files\xampp\apache\bin\php.ini
C:\Program Files\xampp\php\php.ini
C:\Program Files\xampp\php\php4\php.ini

2) Uncomment the following line on your php.ini file by removing the semicolon.

;extension=php_curl.dll

3) Restart your apache server.

4) Check your phpinfo if curl was properly enabled.

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Find your php.ini file. Open your httpd.conf file and look for the PHPIniDir variable. If it is set to C:\PHP then use that ini file.

Open your php.ini file on your php folder usually at C:\PHP. Look for this line

Look for the loadable extension modules directory called extension_dir, set it to

You might want to enable mbstring and curl modules as well by uncommenting the following lines on your php.ini file.

Instead of using file_get_contents function we instead use the builtin file fopen and fgets functions like this:

<?php
$url = 'http://www.tildemark.com/';
$fp = fopen( $url, 'r' );          // r means open the site for reading
$buffer = trim(fgets($fp, 1024));  // read the first 1024 bytes of data
print "<pre>$buffer</pre>";
?>

But, using CURL functions will be a lot faster. We will use CURLOPT_RANGE to get the specific amount of data from a specified url. CURLOPT_RANGE defines as range(s) of data to retrieve in the format "X-Y" where X or Y are optional. HTTP transfers also support several intervals, separated with commas in the format "X-Y,N-M".

<?php
$url = 'http://www.tildemark.com/';
$curl = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RANGE, "0-1024");
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$content = curl_exec ($curl);
echo "<pre>$content</pre>";
?>

Fell free to modify this code and don't forget to post your changes here.

Getting the site title:

Getting the meta description:

Getting the first website sentence:

Here's a sample code to test our script:

You may download a working copy of the title and description scraper script.

Thank you for the comment:
Yes, indeed. We could use the builtin get_meta_tags function to get the website description without any knowledge on regular expressions. here's how:

Aside from getting the description, you could also get Author, Keyword and GeoPosition meta data using the function get_meta_data().