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Get all the meta tags of the page

This function gives a well formatted array of meta tags of a page. It can take care of meta tags such as keywords,description,all robots,googlebot etc.
<?php
 function getMetaTags($content)
 {
  $return_array=array();
  $meta_tags=extractAllMetaTags($content);
  
  //get all keywords meta tags
  $pattern_kw="/\sname\s*=\s*[\"\']*keywords[\"\']*/ims";
  $pattern_content="/\scontent\s*=\s*[\"\']?\s*([^\"\']+)[\"\']?(.*?)>/ims";
  $return_array['keywords']=array();
  foreach($meta_tags[0] as $tag_key=>$tag)
  {
   if(preg_match($pattern_kw,$tag))
   {
    if(preg_match($pattern_content,$tag,$matches_content))
    {
     array_push($return_array['keywords'],$matches_content[1]);
    }
   }
  }
  
  //get all description meta tags
  $matches_content=array();
  $pattern_description="/\sname\s*=\s*[\"\']*description[\"\']*/ims";
  $return_array['description']=array();
  foreach($meta_tags[0] as $tag_key=>$tag)
  {
   if(preg_match($pattern_description,$tag))
   {
    if(preg_match($pattern_content,$tag,$matches_content))
    {
     array_push($return_array['description'],$matches_content[1]);
    }
   }
  }
  
  //get all robots meta tags
  $matches_content=array();
  $pattern_robots="/\sname\s*=\s*[\"\']*robots[\"\']*/ims";
  $return_array['robots']=array();
  foreach($meta_tags[0] as $tag_key=>$tag)
  {
   if(preg_match($pattern_robots,$tag))
   {
    if(preg_match($pattern_content,$tag,$matches_content))
    {
     array_push($return_array['robots'],$matches_content[1]);
    }
   }
  }
  
  //get all googlebot meta tags
  $matches_content=array();
  $pattern_googlebot="/\sname\s*=\s*[\"\']*googlebot[\"\']*/ims";
  $return_array['googlebot']=array();
  foreach($meta_tags[0] as $tag_key=>$tag)
  {
   if(preg_match($pattern_googlebot,$tag))
   {
    if(preg_match($pattern_content,$tag,$matches_content))
    {
     array_push($return_array['googlebot'],$matches_content[1]);
    }
   }
  }
  
  //get all meta refreshes 
  $matches_content=array();
  $pattern_refresh="/\shttp-equiv\s*=\s*[\"\']*refresh[\"\']*/ims";
  $return_array['refresh']=array();
  foreach($meta_tags[0] as $tag_key=>$tag)
  {
   if(preg_match($pattern_refresh,$tag))
   {
    if(preg_match($pattern_content,$tag,$matches_content))
    {
     array_push($return_array['refresh'],$matches_content[1]);
    }
   }
  }
  
  return $return_array;
  
  
 }

 function extractAllMetaTags($content)
 {
  $pattern="/<meta(.*?)>/ims";
  preg_match_all($pattern,$content,$matches);
  return $matches;  
 }


?>

Comments

  1. Akshay JainJanuary 6, 2010 at 9:02 AM

    Please copy the extractAllMetaTags function from the previous post. Post has title Get all meta tags of a page

    ReplyDelete

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