On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 9:25 AM, John Taylor-Johnston
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.
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