preg_match not working we want to choose second title but it choose 1.

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preg_match not working we want to choose second title but it choose 1. - aditya5670 - 06-14-2019

Title tag use in same page one is button tag other is p tag button tag is first title="watch later" other on a href tag title we want to import second a href tag title
source code

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i have tried many things to change /title but it import title is "watch later" i want second title import

           //Title
                   if(preg_match('/title="(.*?)"/', $match, $matches_title)) {
                       $video['title']   = htmlspecialchars_decode(strip_tags(stripslashes($matches_title[1])), ENT_QUOTES);
                   } else {
                       $this->errors[]   = 'Failed to get video title for '.$video['url'].'!';
                       if (!$this->debug) continue;
                       else $debug_e[] = 'TITLE';
                   }

how to choose second title under a tag ?
i want to remove watch later title .

RE: preg_match not working we want to choose second title but it choose 1. - donpwinston - 06-14-2019

I believe the only way is to use an "offset" param in preg_match so you search past the first title. Or use PREG_OFFSET_CAPTURE as the flag parameter.

RE: preg_match not working we want to choose second title but it choose 1. - includebeer - 06-14-2019

Use preg_match_all()

RE: preg_match not working we want to choose second title but it choose 1. - jreklund - 06-15-2019

I don't know what more you are fetching from the site. But this will find both url and title for you.

Code:
$re = '@href="/?(video[0-9]+[^>]+)" title="(.*?)">@m';

preg_match_all($re, $str, $matches, PREG_SET_ORDER, 0);

And in your case, if you don't want it to do multiple things.

Code:
@p class="title">\s*<a.*?title="(.*?)">@