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stristr

(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7)

stristrCase-insensitive strstr()

Description

string stristr ( string $haystack , mixed $needle [, bool $before_needle = false ] )

Returns all of haystack starting from and including the first occurrence of needle to the end.

Parameters

haystack

The string to search in

needle

If needle is not a string, it is converted to an integer and applied as the ordinal value of a character.

before_needle

If TRUE, stristr() returns the part of the haystack before the first occurrence of the needle (excluding needle).

needle and haystack are examined in a case-insensitive manner.

Return Values

Returns the matched substring. If needle is not found, returns FALSE.

Changelog

Version Description
5.3.0 Added the optional parameter before_needle.
4.3.0 stristr() was made binary safe.

Examples

Example #1 stristr() example

<?php
  $email 
'USER@EXAMPLE.com';
  echo 
stristr($email'e'); // outputs ER@EXAMPLE.com
  
echo stristr($email'e'true); // As of PHP 5.3.0, outputs US
?>

Example #2 Testing if a string is found or not

<?php
  $string 
'Hello World!';
  if(
stristr($string'earth') === FALSE) {
    echo 
'"earth" not found in string';
  }
// outputs: "earth" not found in string
?>

Example #3 Using a non "string" needle

<?php
  $string 
'APPLE';
  echo 
stristr($string97); // 97 = lowercase a
// outputs: APPLE
?>

Notes

Note: This function is binary-safe.

See Also

  • strstr() - Find the first occurrence of a string
  • strrchr() - Find the last occurrence of a character in a string
  • stripos() - Find the position of the first occurrence of a case-insensitive substring in a string
  • strpbrk() - Search a string for any of a set of characters
  • preg_match() - Perform a regular expression match

User Contributed Notes

dpatton.at.confluence.org
13 years ago
There was a change in PHP 4.2.3 that can cause a warning message
to be generated when using stristr(), even though no message was
generated in older versions of PHP.

The following will generate a warning message in 4.0.6 and 4.2.3:
  stristr("haystack", "");
     OR
  $needle = "";  stristr("haystack", $needle);

This will _not_ generate an "Empty Delimiter" warning message in
4.0.6, but _will_ in 4.2.3:
  unset($needle); stristr("haystack", $needle);

Here's a URL that documents what was changed:
http://groups.google.ca/groups?selm=cvshholzgra1031224321%40cvsserver
Techdeck at Techdeck dot org
13 years ago
An example for the stristr() function:

<?php
$a
= "I like php";
if (
stristr("$a", "LikE PhP")) {
print (
"According to \$a, you like PHP.");
}
?>

It will look in $a for "like php" (NOT case sensetive. though, strstr() is case-sensetive).

For the ones of you who uses linux.. It is similiar to the "grep" command.
Actually.. "grep -i".
giz at gbdesign dot net
8 years ago
Just been caught out by stristr trying to converting the needle from an Int to an ASCII value.

Got round this by casting the value to a string.

<?php
if( !stristr( $file, (string) $myCustomer->getCustomerID()  ) ) {
 
// Permission denied
}
?>
art at awilton dot dotcom
10 years ago
handy little bit of code I wrote to take arguments from the command line and parse them for use in my apps.

<?php

$i
= implode(" ",$argv); //implode all the settings sent via clie
$e = explode("-",$i); // no lets explode it using our defined seperator '-'

       //now lets parse the array and return the parameter name and its setting
       // since the input is being sent by the user via the command line
       //we will use stristr since we don't care about case sensitivity and
       //will convert them as needed later.

   
while (list($index,$value) = each($e)){

      
//lets grap the parameter name first using a double reverse string
       // to get the begining of the string in the array then reverse it again
       // to set it back. we will also "trim" off the "=" sign

    
$param = rtrim(strrev(stristr(strrev($value),'=')),"=");

      
//now lets get what the parameter is set to.
       // again "trimming" off the = sign

    
$setting = ltrim(stristr($value,'='),"=");

      
// now do something with our results.
       // let's just echo them out so we can see that everything is working

     
echo "Array index is ".$index." and value is ".$value."\r\n";
      echo
"Parameter is ".$param." and is set to ".$setting."\r\n\r\n";

}

?>

when run from the CLI this script returns the following.

[root@fedora4 ~]# php a.php -val1=one -val2=two -val3=three

Array index is 0 and value is a.php
Parameter is  and is set to

Array index is 1 and value is val1=one
Parameter is val1 and is set to one

Array index is 2 and value is val2=two
Parameter is val2 and is set to two

Array index is 3 and value is val3=three
Parameter is val3 and is set to three

[root@fedora4 ~]#
notepad at codewalkers dot com
10 years ago
<?php

function stristr_reverse($haystack, $needle) {
 
$pos = stripos($haystack, $needle) + strlen($needle);
  return
substr($haystack, 0, $pos);
}
$email = 'USER@EXAMPLE.com';
echo
stristr_reverse($email, 'er');
// outputs USER

?>
greg at no_ggmac_reply dot com
5 years ago
Beware the example given here:

if stristr($message,'viagra')
or stristr($message,'cialis')
)
{
die();
}

stristr does not search for words, it finds matching substrings.  So, for example, the check for 'cialis' will trigger on 'specialist'
jukka
1 year ago
I think there is a bug in php 5.3 in stristr with uppercase Ä containing other character

http://pastebin.com/5bP6uztY

if you search only with täry it works, but as soon as the word is tärylä  it does not. TÄRYL works fine
tomas dot nesrovnal at yourspirit dot cz
7 years ago
Active item item in menu:

<?php
function aim($page) {
    if(
stristr($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], $page)) {
        return
' class="active"';
    }
}
?>

usage:

<style type="text/css">
.active {color: red;}
</style>

<?php
print '<a href="http://example.com/page/hello-world/"'. aim('hello-world') .'>HW</a>';
?>
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