Posted by Janwillem Borleffs on 10/25/05 15:26

Jorge A wrote:
> Is there any function in PHP to know if a string is a substring of
> another string?
>
> For instance:
> $title="White men can't jump";
> $text="white";
>
> function($title, $text) would return a boolean depending on $text is a
> substring or not.
>
> I have only found some string compare functions flicking through the
> documentation.
>
> Thanks in advance!

On PHP5:

$match = stripos($title, $text) !== false;

On PHP4:

$match = strpos(strtolower($title), strtolower($text)) !== false;


JW

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