Show Thread Enhancements - Auto Title Tag Fetcher (Title Tag as Anchor Text) for vB 4.2.5 & PHP7

This is an update for vBulletin 4.2.5 and PHP 7.1.

If any of the original coders are still active and want to update this, please do so and then this thread can be archived. However, the last login date for the most recent coder was July 2016 and I wanted to save time for others by putting the information and code modifications in one place. Full credits given below.

From the exportforce update for vBulletin 3.7 and 3.8:

If you post an URL in the Forums, this Mod just loads the <title>XXXXXX</title> out of the linked website.

The title won't be read if the following conditions occur:

• The linked page simply has no <title>-Tag
• The page is down or the <title>-Tag is not being found within the first 60 seconds
• The <title>-Tag is not being found within the first 1000 lines of code.

Installation:
If you have the previous version 1.5c, uninstall from the ACP. Then just import the new product XML via the ACP.

Uninstall:
Just uninistall it from the ACP.

Credits:

• Original by Jafo232 for vBulletin 3.5
• Updated by Jafo232 for vBulletin 3.6
• Updated and recoded by exportforce for vBulletin 3.7 and vBulletin 3.8

• Code modifications for vBulletin 4.2.5 and PHP 7.1 suggested by BirdOPrey5 and Rhodium
  
• PHP 7 requirements clarified by mdawg at Title Tag Fetcher (Auto Replace URL with Titletag) stopped working - vBulletin.org Forum

Title Tag Fetcher (Auto Replace URL with Titletag as Anchortext) for vBulletin 4.2.5 and PHP 7

Updates:

2017-07-20 Updated product xml file to display correct version and title

[djbaxter]

Originally Posted by djbaxter

Hold on. Messed something up. Not working now.

I had uploaded a broken version. If you tried that one, you're correct. It wasn't working.

I fixed that and re-uploaded the zip file. That's working fine for me with 4.2.5 and PHP7.1 but remember you need curl active on your server.

[mdawg]

One thing I have noticed about this is that if you simply copy/paste the URL it won't "pull" the title you have to paste and match style so that the URL appears in plain text (not as a hyperlink).