does anyone know a function i could use instead of stristr

[kevinkhan]

I have an array with the following elements

 

define("LIST_OF_SCHOOLS", "st patricks,Piarsaigh,Phiarsaigh,St Vincents,Glanmire,Farranree,North Presentation,north mon,north monestrey,Scoil iosagain,St aidans,knocknaheeny,mon");

 

$schoolList = explode(',', LIST_OF_SCHOOLS);

 

function checkForSchool($page, $schoolList) {
   preg_match('%(Studied at|Went to|Goes to) \\\u003ca href=\\\\"http:\\\/\\\/www.facebook.com\\\/pages\\\/[a-zA-Z-]*\\\/\d*\\\\" data-hovercard=\\\\"\\\/ajax\\\/hovercard\\\/page.php\?[a-zA-Z=0-9]*\\\\">([a-zA-Z\s]*)\\\u003c\\\/a>%', $page, $match);
    if($match && count($match)>0) {

		normal($match[2]);
		for($cnt=0; $cnt<count($schoolList); $cnt++) {

			$school = trim($schoolList[$cnt]);

			green(stristr($match[2],$school));
			if($school!="" && stristr($match[2], $school)) { 
			blue($match[2].": Match for school found");
				unset($school);
				return true;
			}			
		}	
    }
else
{
red("No school set on profile");
}
unset($school);
return false;

How come my function is returning true for this match

 

mond Community High School

Inveralmond Community High School: Match for school found

 

I only want it too return true if all the match corresponds with one of the element in the array $schoolList

[Pikachu2000]

Can you clarify this please?

 

"I only want it too return true if all the match corresponds with one of the element in the array $schoolList"

[Psycho]

You need to check the values that YOU THINK are being compared. Most likely you are getting a single character or something like that.

 

By the way, why are you looping through all the values in the array? Use in_array() instead. Just be sure the values in the search string and the array have the same case.

 

For debugging, before this line

if($school!="" && stristr($match[2], $school)) { 

 

Add:

echo "Comparing [{$school}] & [{$match[2]}]<br />\n";