Posted by Carl Vondrick on 04/01/06 09:45
Jesper wrote:
> I'm going to use a lot of searches for occurences of words in a long text:
> $string = "a 500 character Text";
> if (eregi("text", $string)) { print "found";}
>
> Eregi should be very slow, so I'm looking for alternatives. Any
> suggestions? I guess I could use something like
> $string = strtolower($string);
> if ( strpos($string, "text") !== false ) { print "found";}
>
> Is that the best solution?
Your best bet is to use stripos(). This is already case-insensitive.
Carl
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