Search for a string in a variable...

[foochuck]

I'm trying to figure out how to search through a variable for a given string.

 

For example my variable is:

 

$myVariable = 'may the force be with you';

 

I want to search through the variable to see if it contains 'the force'.

 

Is there a function to do this?

 

Thanks

 

[Alex]

strpos().

 

$myVariable = 'may the force be with you';
if(strpos($myVariable, 'the force') === false)
{
     //the string was not found
}
else
{
     //It was found..
}

[foochuck]

Thanks Alex. One more question - could you show me how I could turn this into a function so I can feed two variables into strpos and then return a string of HTML if the string IS found...?

 

strpos().

 

$myVariable = 'may the force be with you';
if(strpos($myVariable, 'the force') === false)
{
     //the string was not found
}
else
{
     //It was found..
}

[foochuck]

One more question, could I just do this?

 

$myVariable = 'may the force be with you';
if(strpos($myVariable, 'the force') === true)
{
     //It was found..
}

 

strpos().

 

$myVariable = 'may the force be with you';
if(strpos($myVariable, 'the force') === false)
{
     //the string was not found
}
else
{
     //It was found..
}

[foochuck]

Someone just suggested this to me...

 

if(strstr($myVariable,'the force')) {
//It was found...
}

 

Would this work too?