convert links to <a> tags code

[ulthane]

hey guys, i got a code that convert links entered through a textarea to a clickable link with page title as shown string
like this:
<a href="enteredURL" rel="nofollow">pageTitle</a>

I wanna know if the code below looks all right to you? it works only for some links not all, and i dont know the reason.

function get_page_title($url)
{
	ini_set('user_agent', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.11) Gecko/2009060215 Firefox/3.0.11');
	if(!($data = @file_get_contents($url)))
		return false;
	if(preg_match("#<title>(.+)<\/title>#iU", $data, $t))
		return trim($t[1]);
	return false;
}
function _make_url_clickable_cb($matches) 
{
	$ret = '';
	$url = $matches[2];
	if (empty($url))
		return $matches[0];
	if (in_array(substr($url, -1), array('.', ',', ';', ':')) === true) 
	{
		$ret = substr($url, -1);
		$url = substr($url, 0, strlen($url)-1);
	}
	$x = get_page_title($url);
	if (!$x)
		$x = 'link';
	return $matches[1] . "<a href=\"$url\" rel=\"nofollow\">$x</a>" . $ret;
}
function _make_web_ftp_clickable_cb($matches) 
{
	$ret = '';
	$dest = $matches[2];
	$dest = 'http://' . $dest;
	if (empty($dest))
		return $matches[0];
	if (in_array(substr($dest, -1), array('.', ',', ';', ':')) === true) 
	{
		$ret = substr($dest, -1);
		$dest = substr($dest, 0, strlen($dest)-1);
	}
	$x = get_page_title($dest);
	if (!$x)
		$x = 'link';
	return $matches[1] . "<a href=\"$dest\" rel=\"nofollow\">$x</a>" . $ret;
}
function make_clickable($ret)
{
	$ret = ' ' . $ret;
	$ret = preg_replace_callback('#([\s>])([\w]+?://[\w\\x80-\\xff\#$%&~/.\-;:=,?@\[\]+]*)#is', '_make_url_clickable_cb', $ret);
	$ret = preg_replace_callback('#([\s>])((www|ftp)\.[\w\\x80-\\xff\#$%&~/.\-;:=,?@\[\]+]*)#is', '_make_web_ftp_clickable_cb', $ret);
	$ret = preg_replace("#(<a( [^>]+?>|>))<a [^>]+?>([^>]+?)</a></a>#i", "$1$3</a>", $ret);
	$ret = trim($ret);
	return $ret;
}

An example of link which it fails to convert is this:
http://www.yad2.co.il/Order/Order2_Pet.php

The result given for the link above is:
<a href="http://www.yad2.co.il/Order/Order2_Pet.php" rel="nofollow">

so it gets stucked somewhere at getting the title .... any help?

Thanks,
ulthane

[Mandes]

A quick guess is because the page title of your given link is in hebrew !!!

[ulthane]

Nope thats not that my whole site is in hebrew, and there are links with hebrew titles that do work aswell...
I got no clue what the problem can be....

[Mandes]

have you tried making a page with the same title, then removing characters one by one to see which is causing the problem ?

[ulthane]

can it be related somehow to timeout or so?
i mean, for some links like the one i gave above i noticed it takes a while for the proccess to finish, any timeouts stuff are related to this?

Edit* no Mandes i haven't tried it, ill try it now.