strstr() is not a way to avoid type-checking with strpos().
If $needle is the last character in $haystack, and testing $needle as a boolean by itself would evaluate to false, then testing strstr() as a boolean will evaluate to false (because, if successful, strstr() returns the first occurrence of $needle along with the rest of $haystack).
<?php
findZero('01234'); // found a zero
findZero('43210'); // did not find a zero
findZero('0'); // did not find a zero
findZero('00'); // found a zero
findZero('000'); // found a zero
findZero('10'); // did not find a zero
findZero('100'); // found a zero
function findZero($numberString) {
if (strstr($numberString, '0')) {
echo 'found a zero';
} else {
echo 'did not find a zero';
}
}
?>
Also, strstr() is far more memory-intensive than strpos(), especially with longer strings as your $haystack, so if you are not interested in the substring that strstr() returns, you shouldn't be using it anyway.
There is no PHP function just to check only _if_ $needle occurs in $haystack; strpos() tells you if it _doesn't_ by returning false, but, if it does occur, it tells you _where_ it occurs as an integer, which is 0 (zero) if $needle is the first part of $haystack, which is why testing if (strpos($needle, $haystack)===false) is the only way to know for sure if $needle is not part of $haystack.
My advice is to start loving type checking immediately, and to familiarize yourself with the return value of the functions you are using.
Cheers.
strstr
(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)
strstr — Trova la prima occorrenza di una stringa
Descrizione
Restituisce la parte della stringa haystack dalla prima occorrenza
di needle fino alla fine di
haystack.
Se non si trova needle, restituisce false.
Se needle non è una stringa, il parametro viene convertito in
un intero e utilizzato come valore ordinale di un carattere.
Nota:
Questa funzione distingue tra maiuscole e minuscole. Per una versione che non abbia questa distinzione guardare stristr().
Example #1 Esempio di uso di strstr()
<?php
$email = 'user@example.com';
$domain = strstr($email, '@');
echo $domain; // prints @example.com
?>
Nota:
Se si desidera soltanto determinare se una particolare stringa è presente in
haystack, utilizzare la più veloce e meno costosa in termini di memoria strpos().
strstr() è sicura con i dati binari dal PHP 4.3.0
Vedere anche: ereg(), preg_match(), stristr(), strpos(), strrchr() e substr().
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User Contributed Notes 10 notes
laszlo dot heredy at gmail dot com ¶
11 years ago
xslidian at lidian dot info ¶
11 years ago
For those in need of the last occurrence of a string:
<?php
function strrstr($h, $n, $before = false) {
$rpos = strrpos($h, $n);
if($rpos === false) return false;
if($before == false) return substr($h, $rpos);
else return substr($h, 0, $rpos);
}
?>
gruessle at gmail dot com ¶
13 years ago
Been using this for years:
<?php
/**
*
* @author : Dennis T Kaplan
*
* @version : 1.0
* Date : June 17, 2007
* Function : reverse strstr()
* Purpose : Returns part of haystack string from start to the first occurrence of needle
* $haystack = 'this/that/whatever';
* $result = rstrstr($haystack, '/')
* $result == this
*
* @access public
* @param string $haystack, string $needle
* @return string
**/
function rstrstr($haystack,$needle)
{
return substr($haystack, 0,strpos($haystack, $needle));
}
?>
You could change it to:
rstrstr ( string $haystack , mixed $needle [, int $start] )
<?php
function rstrstr($haystack,$needle, $start=0)
{
return substr($haystack, $start,strpos($haystack, $needle));
}
?>
w3b_monk3y at yahoo dot com ¶
15 years ago
If you want to emulate strstr's new before_needle parameter pre 5.3 strtok is faster than using strpos to find the needle and cutting with substr. The amount of difference varies with string size but strtok is always faster.
brett dot jr dot alton at gmail dot com ¶
16 years ago
For the needle_before (first occurance) parameter when using PHP 5.x or less, try:
<?php
$haystack = 'php-homepage-20071125.png';
$needle = '-';
$result = substr($haystack, 0, strpos($haystack, $needle)); // $result = php
?>
Julian Egelstaff ¶
1 year ago
Lookout for logic inversion in old code!
In PHP 8, if the needle is an empty string, this function will return 0 (not false), implying the first character of the string matches the needle. Before PHP 8, it would return false when the needle is an empty string.
There other string functions that are affected by similar issues in PHP 8: strpos(), strrpos(), stripos(), strripos(), strchr(), strrchr(), stristr(), and this function, strstr()
If you are checking if the return value === false then you will be misled by this new behaviour. You also need to check if the needle was an empty string. Basically, something like this:
<?php
$result = $needle ? strstr($haystack, $needle) : false;
?>
trent dot renshaw at objectst dot com dot au ¶
9 years ago
> root at mantoru dot de
PHP makes this easy for you. When working with domain portion of email addresses, simply pass the return of strstr() to substr() and start at 1:
substr(strstr($haystack, '@'), 1);
root at mantoru dot de ¶
17 years ago
Please note that $needle is included in the return string, as shown in the example above. This ist not always desired behavior, _especially_ in the mentioned example. Use this if you want everything AFTER $needle.
<?php
function strstr_after($haystack, $needle, $case_insensitive = false) {
$strpos = ($case_insensitive) ? 'stripos' : 'strpos';
$pos = $strpos($haystack, $needle);
if (is_int($pos)) {
return substr($haystack, $pos + strlen($needle));
}
// Most likely false or null
return $pos;
}
// Example
$email = 'name@example.com';
$domain = strstr_after($email, '@');
echo $domain; // prints example.com
?>
leo dot nard at free dot fr ¶
19 years ago
When encoding ASCII strings to HTML size-limited strings, sometimes some HTML special chars were cut.
For example, when encoding "��" to a string of size 10, you would get: "à&a" => the second character is cut.
This function will remove any unterminated HTML special characters from the string...
<?php
function cut_html($string)
{
$a=$string;
while ($a = strstr($a, '&'))
{
echo "'".$a."'\n";
$b=strstr($a, ';');
if (!$b)
{
echo "couper...\n";
$nb=strlen($a);
return substr($string, 0, strlen($string)-$nb);
}
$a=substr($a,1,strlen($a)-1);
}
return $string;
}
?>
