Re: search string

I think you want regular expressions... Try this on for size: $str = "http://www.yahoo.com/somedir/somepage.html"; if (preg_match("/www.yahoo.com/i", $str)) { print "Your submission cannot be accepted"; } else { print "You are good"; } If you want to read up on regular expressions: http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.pcre.php (Faster than ereg) http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.regex.php // Tobias Talltorp ""Joseph Bannon"" <joseph@iwebsitesoftware.com> wrote in message news:NEBBJPFPMLBIJMIFFHFJMELHCMAA.joseph@iwebsitesoftware.com... > What is the function to search a string? Basically, I want search a string > (a url) to see if it has "www.yahoo.com" in it and if yes, tell the user > their submission cannot be accepted. > > J > > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net >