On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 9:25 AM, John Taylor-Johnston <jt.johnston@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > $name = "John Taylor"; > I want to verify if $name contains "john", if yes echo "found"; > Cannot remember which to use: > http://ca.php.net/manual/en/ref.strings.php > Sorry, > John <?php if(stristr($name,'john')) { // True } ?> Since you said you wanted to know if it "contains 'john'", this will find if 'john' (insensitive) matches any part of the name. So in your case, it would match on both John and Johnston. -- </Daniel P. Brown> Ask me about: Dedicated servers starting @ $59.99/mo., VPS starting @ $19.99/mo., and shared hosting starting @ $2.50/mo. Unmanaged, managed, and fully-managed! -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
