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There was a change in PHP 4.2.3 that can cause a warning message
to be generated when using stristr(), even though no message was
generated in older versions of PHP.
The following will generate a warning message in 4.0.6 and 4.2.3:
stristr("haystack", "");
OR
$needle = ""; stristr("haystack", $needle);
This will _not_ generate an "Empty Delimiter" warning message in
4.0.6, but _will_ in 4.2.3:
unset($needle); stristr("haystack", $needle);
Here's a URL that documents what was changed:
http://groups.google.ca/groups?selm=cvshholzgra1031224321%40cvsserver
Description
Returns all of haystack starting from and including the first
occurrence of needle to the end.
Parameters
-
haystack -
The string to search in
-
needle -
If
needleis not a string, it is converted to an integer and applied as the ordinal value of a character. -
before_needle -
If
TRUE, stristr() returns the part of thehaystackbefore the first occurrence of theneedle(excluding needle).
needle and haystack
are examined in a case-insensitive manner.
Return Values
Returns the matched substring. If needle is not
found, returns FALSE.
Changelog
| Version | Description |
|---|---|
| 5.3.0 |
Added the optional parameter before_needle.
|
| 4.3.0 | stristr() was made binary safe. |
Examples
Example #1 stristr() example
<?php
$email = 'USER@EXAMPLE.com';
echo stristr($email, 'e'); // outputs ER@EXAMPLE.com
echo stristr($email, 'e', true); // As of PHP 5.3.0, outputs US
?>
Example #2 Testing if a string is found or not
<?php
$string = 'Hello World!';
if(stristr($string, 'earth') === FALSE) {
echo '"earth" not found in string';
}
// outputs: "earth" not found in string
?>
Example #3 Using a non "string" needle
<?php
$string = 'APPLE';
echo stristr($string, 97); // 97 = lowercase a
// outputs: APPLE
?>
Notes
Note: This function is binary-safe.
See Also
- strstr() - Find the first occurrence of a string
- strrchr() - Find the last occurrence of a character in a string
- stripos() - Find the position of the first occurrence of a case-insensitive substring in a string
- strpbrk() - Search a string for any of a set of characters
- preg_match() - Perform a regular expression match
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User Contributed Notes
stristr - [11 notes]
dpatton.at.confluence.org ¶
10 years ago
tomas dot nesrovnal at yourspirit dot cz ¶
4 years ago
Active item item in menu:
<?php
function aim($page) {
if(stristr($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], $page)) {
return ' class="active"';
}
}
?>
usage:
<style type="text/css">
.active {color: red;}
</style>
<?php
print '<a href="http://example.com/page/hello-world/"'. aim('hello-world') .'>HW</a>';
?>
notepad at codewalkers dot com ¶
7 years ago
<?php
function stristr_reverse($haystack, $needle) {
$pos = stripos($haystack, $needle) + strlen($needle);
return substr($haystack, 0, $pos);
}
$email = 'USER@EXAMPLE.com';
echo stristr_reverse($email, 'er');
// outputs USER
?>
greg at no_ggmac_reply dot com ¶
2 years ago
Beware the example given here:
if stristr($message,'viagra')
or stristr($message,'cialis')
)
{
die();
}
stristr does not search for words, it finds matching substrings. So, for example, the check for 'cialis' will trigger on 'specialist'
giz at gbdesign dot net ¶
5 years ago
Just been caught out by stristr trying to converting the needle from an Int to an ASCII value.
Got round this by casting the value to a string.
<?php
if( !stristr( $file, (string) $myCustomer->getCustomerID() ) ) {
// Permission denied
}
?>
Techdeck at Techdeck dot org ¶
10 years ago
An example for the stristr() function:
<?php
$a = "I like php";
if (stristr("$a", "LikE PhP")) {
print ("According to \$a, you like PHP.");
}
?>
It will look in $a for "like php" (NOT case sensetive. though, strstr() is case-sensetive).
For the ones of you who uses linux.. It is similiar to the "grep" command.
Actually.. "grep -i".
triadsebas at triads dot buildtolearn dot net ¶
7 years ago
You can use strstr() or stristr() to validate data!
Check this out:
<?php
function validate_email($input) {
if (!stristr($input, '@')) {
return false;
}
return true;
}
function validate_url($input) {
if (!stristr($input, 'http://')) {
return false;
}
return true;
}
?>
Simple example:
<?php
if (!validate_email($_POST['email'])) {
print 'You did not enter a valid email adress';
}
if (!validate_url($_POST['url'])) {
print 'You did not enter a valid url.';
}
?>
art at awilton dot dotcom ¶
7 years ago
handy little bit of code I wrote to take arguments from the command line and parse them for use in my apps.
<?php
$i = implode(" ",$argv); //implode all the settings sent via clie
$e = explode("-",$i); // no lets explode it using our defined seperator '-'
//now lets parse the array and return the parameter name and its setting
// since the input is being sent by the user via the command line
//we will use stristr since we don't care about case sensitivity and
//will convert them as needed later.
while (list($index,$value) = each($e)){
//lets grap the parameter name first using a double reverse string
// to get the begining of the string in the array then reverse it again
// to set it back. we will also "trim" off the "=" sign
$param = rtrim(strrev(stristr(strrev($value),'=')),"=");
//now lets get what the parameter is set to.
// again "trimming" off the = sign
$setting = ltrim(stristr($value,'='),"=");
// now do something with our results.
// let's just echo them out so we can see that everything is working
echo "Array index is ".$index." and value is ".$value."\r\n";
echo "Parameter is ".$param." and is set to ".$setting."\r\n\r\n";
}
?>
when run from the CLI this script returns the following.
[root@fedora4 ~]# php a.php -val1=one -val2=two -val3=three
Array index is 0 and value is a.php
Parameter is and is set to
Array index is 1 and value is val1=one
Parameter is val1 and is set to one
Array index is 2 and value is val2=two
Parameter is val2 and is set to two
Array index is 3 and value is val3=three
Parameter is val3 and is set to three
[root@fedora4 ~]#
jahforlove at gmail dot com ¶
2 years ago
Use it to emulate the before_needle php V5.3 :
<?php
//$h = haystack, $n = needle
if($pos=stripos($h,$n)) $string=substr($h,0,$pos);
?>
carel at ckbt dot org ¶
3 years ago
if stristr($message,'viagra')
or stristr($message,'cialis')
)
{
die();
}
Works quite well in any Shoutbox, Forum, Guestbook, Mailform, etcetera.
Just enter between the definitions and sending the message to the DB, et voila. ^_^