Syntax question

[jlr2k8]

Is there a PHP condtional statement that uses something similar to "like"?

 

if ($string LIKE "text")
{
   do this;
}

 

[fert]

no, there isn't

[jitesh]

This may help you

 

stripos

(PHP 5)

 

stripos --  Find position of first occurrence of a case-insensitive string

Description

int stripos ( string haystack, string needle [, int offset] )

 

 

Returns the numeric position of the first occurrence of needle in the haystack string. Unlike strpos(), stripos() is case-insensitive.

 

Note that the needle may be a string of one or more characters.

 

If needle is not found, stripos() will return boolean FALSE.

 

 

Warning

This function may return Boolean FALSE, but may also return a non-Boolean value which evaluates to FALSE, such as 0 or "". Please read the section on Booleans for more information. Use the === operator for testing the return value of this function.

 

 

Example 1. stripos() examples

 

<?php

$findme    = 'a';

$mystring1 = 'xyz';

$mystring2 = 'ABC';

 

$pos1 = stripos($mystring1, $findme);

$pos2 = stripos($mystring2, $findme);

 

// Nope, 'a' is certainly not in 'xyz'

if ($pos1 === false) {

    echo "The string '$findme' was not found in the string '$mystring1'";

}

 

// Note our use of ===.  Simply == would not work as expected

// because the position of 'a' is the 0th (first) character.

if ($pos2 !== false) {

    echo "We found '$findme' in '$mystring2' at position $pos2";

}

?> 

 

 

 

If needle is not a string, it is converted to an integer and applied as the ordinal value of a character.

 

The optional offset parameter allows you to specify which character in haystack to start searching. The position returned is still relative to the beginning of haystack.

 

Note: This function is binary-safe.

 

 

[jitesh]

Are you getting what i want to say ?

 

<?php

$str = " This is the file";

if(stripos($str,"the")){

echo "Found";

}else{

echo "Not found";

}

?>

[Fergusfer]

Have you looked at the string functions levenshtein() and similar_text()?