Re: Verifying against a file

> $fd=fopen("words.txt", "r"); Check that $fd is not 0. > $words = fread($fd, 1000000); > > I then convert a string which is passed in a form to this script > > $FirstName=strtolower("$FirstName"); > > And now I check to see if the lowercase version of $FirstName contains any of > the words from the $words > > if ($FirstName=="$words") > { > echo "Bad"; > } > > But it doesn`t seem to want to work, anyone give me a pointer as to where I > am going wrong with this?? What you have will work only if the file has *EXACTLY* the lower-case of the $FirstName, with no newlines, and no other names in the file, and the one in the file must not be Mixed Case. You are probably looking for something more like this: if (stristr($words, $FirstName)){ echo "Bad"; } http://php.net/stristr