1. function bing_backs($url){ // to get backilinks
2. $url = "http://www.bing.com/search?q=link%3A%20$url";
3. $total = file_get_contents($url);
4. $match_expression = '/<span class="sb_count" id="count">(.*?)<\\/span><\/div>/im';
5. // preg_match($match_expression,$total,$matches);
6. preg_match_all($match_expression, $total, $matches);
7. echo $n_clean=$matches[1];
8. return $n_clean=clean_me($n_clean);
9. }
10. function clean_me($numb){ // to clean the reutrn numbers remove coma (,) etc
11. return $clean_num=str_replace(",", "", $numb);
12. }
16. $url="www.youtube.com";
17. echo bing_backs($url); // not working regex seems to be ok to me