Posted by maya on 06/11/06 19:52

hi, am new to PHP, trying to learn strings... I'm a bit mystifed about
something.. how do you test for conditions in strings? for example,
how would you do what in JavaScript (or Java) you do like this

if (email.indexOf('@') != -1) { // etc..

also how do you test for length of a string? I tried:

if (strlen($myName) == 7) {

but got error...

I have looked at sections dealing with conditionals in tutorials, but
don't see examles of this (also don't see functions like indexOf(),
etc.. under Strings here, http://us2.php.net/manual/en/ref.strings.php..

thank you very much..

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