echo all pages with each pages unique title from directory/folder - php

Question

I have a folder in the main root, News. In that folder, I have 10 pages, each one has a unique page title:
/news/Today-is-cold-outside.php title = Today is Cold
/news/Watch-out-for-the-smelly-frogs.php title = Smelly Toads
I can get the code below to work so that it will fetch each page and provide a link to each page with the page name $file, example: Today-is-cold-outside.php, not $title = Today is Cold.
How can I get the page to display the specific Page Title for each link $title?
I know I have $file listed below instead of $title in the link, I left it in there so you can see where I am wanting to display the title and that if you test it, it will show you that it is getting the $file=pages from the directory/folder news.
Thanks in advance, I have been working for 2 days on this and cant find a solution.
<?php
$handle = opendir('news');
$dom = new DOMDocument();
while (false !== ($file = readdir($handle))){
$extension = strtolower(substr(strrchr($file, '.'), 1));
if ($extension == 'html' || $extension == 'htm' || $extension == 'php') {
if($dom->loadHTMLFile($urlpage)) {
$list = $dom->getElementsByTagName("title");
if ($list->length > 0) {
$title = $list->item(0)->textContent;
}
}
echo "<a href='news/$file'>$file</a>";
}
}
?>

Answer 1

Try nodeValue
$title = $list->item(0)->nodeValue
change
$dom->loadHTMLFile($file)
and
echo "<a href='blog/$file'>$title</a>";

Answer 2

If $file = Today-is-cold-outside.php
And you want $title to = Today is Cold
Do this:
$title = $file;
$title = str_replace('-',' ',$title);
$title = str_replace('.php','',$title);
echo $title;
This will convert dashes to spaces, and remove the .php extension.
If you like my answer I can also convert each word from lowercase into uppercase as well as limit the max number of words to 3 if you want.
Try this out:
<?php
$handle = opendir('news');
$dom = new DOMDocument();
while (false !== ($file = readdir($handle))){
$extension = strtolower(substr(strrchr($file, '.'), 1));
if ($extension == 'html' || $extension == 'htm' || $extension == 'php') {
if($dom->loadHTMLFile($urlpage)) {
$list = $dom->getElementsByTagName("title");
if ($list->length > 0) {
$title = $list->item(0)->textContent;
}
}
$title = $file;
$title = str_replace('-',' ',$title);
$title = str_replace('.php','',$title);
echo '<a href="blog/'.$file.'">';
echo $title;
echo '</a>';
}
}
?>
<?php
$handle = opendir('blog');
$dom = new DOMDocument();
while (false !== ($file = readdir($handle))){
$extension = strtolower(substr(strrchr($file, '.'), 1));
if ($extension == 'html' || $extension == 'htm' || $extension == 'php') {
if($dom->loadHTMLFile('blog/'.$file)) {
$list = $dom->getElementsByTagName("title");
if ($list->length > 0) {
$title = $list->item(0)->textContent;
}
}
echo "<a href='blog/$file'>$title</a><br/>";
}
}
?>
<?php
$title = $file;
$title = str_replace('-',' ',$title);
$title = str_replace('.php','',$title);
echo '<a href="blog/'.$file.'">';
echo $title;
echo '</a>'; ?>

Answer 3

<?php
$handle = opendir('news');
$dom = new DOMDocument();
$title = '';
while (false !== ($file = readdir($handle))){
$extension = strtolower(substr(strrchr($file, '.'), 1));
if ($extension == 'html' || $extension == 'htm' || $extension == 'php') {
if($dom->loadHTMLFile('news/'.$file)) {
$list = $dom->getElementsByTagName("title");
if ($list->length > 0) {
$title = $list->item(0)->textContent;
}
}
echo "<a href='news/$file'>$file</a>";
echo $title;
}
}
?>
my directory name is "news"

Answer 4

<?php
$handle = opendir('news');
$dom = new DOMDocument();
while (false !== ($file = readdir($handle))){
$extension = strtolower(substr(strrchr($file, '.'), 1));
if ($extension == 'html' || $extension == 'htm' || $extension == 'php') {
if($dom->loadHTMLFile('news/'.$file)) {
$list = $dom->getElementsByTagName("title");
if ($list->length > 0) {
$title = $list->item(0)->textContent;
}
}
echo "<a href='news/$file'>$title</a><br/>";
}
}
?>