stripos()

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

Syntax

int stripos (string $haystack, string $needle, int $offset)

Arguments

• haystack - The string to search in
• needle - Note that the needle may be a string of one or more characters. If needle is not a string, it is converted to an integer and applied as the ordinal value of a character.
• offset - 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.

Description

Returns the numeric position of the first occurrence of needle in the haystack string.

Version

PHP 5

Return value

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