Re: [RFC] Scan results for array_str_contains

Hi, ‪On Thu, 3 Sept 2026 at 17:21, ‫سپهر محمودی‬‎ <sepehrphpr@gmail.com> wrote:‬ > > Hey internals, > > Just wanted to follow up with the real-world data I promised for array_str_contains(). > > I scanned the top 200 Composer packages (around 21,000 PHP files) to see how people currently > handle array substring searches. Here is what I found (32 matches total): > > - array_filter with str_contains: 8 > - array_filter with strpos: 8 > - array_filter with stripos: 6 > - foreach with str_contains: 6 > - array_filter with preg_match: 4 > > All these different (and sometimes verbose) approaches can simply be replaced with a single, > clean, and fast native call: > array_str_contains($haystack, $needle) > > I’ve updated the RFC with these findings: > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/array_str_contains > > If you want to check out the script or raw JSON results, I uploaded them here: > > https://gist.github.com/sepehrphpr/d4d371ba682cc43c4f258de94684cc91 > > Let me know what you think! > > Cheers, > Sepehr > quick look in the RFC about this "Non-string values in the array are implicitly cast to strings before the check". Is actually the case implementation wise ?