Re: string

Excellent. Thanks all! John Daniel Brown wrote:

On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 9:25 AM, John Taylor-Johnston <jt.johnston@usherbrooke.ca> 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.