Oscommerce Title Tags Paranoia

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In our quest into search engines and top listings we tried the following code:

 

// save this as something like test.php and upload it to your server

 

$geturl = 'www.yourwebsite.com';

 

$HTML_file = file ($geturl);

 

$HTML_string = implode('', $HTML_file);

 

eregi("<title>(.*)</title>", $HTML_string, $my_temp);

 

$HTML_title = trim($my_temp[1]);

 

echo 'TITLE = '.$HTML_title.'<BR>';

 

We tried this on several Oscommerce sites that we have done and the title tag is empty.

We then tried this on several other php/database sites that we have written and the title tag appears.

 

If some search engines use a similar technique to spider websites perhaps this may be a problem ? Although looking through the code of Osc we cant see a reason why.

 

I would be interested to know if any other people have a similar problem or maybe this code is totally incorrect.