Edit report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=53788&edit=1
ID: 53788 Updated by: ras...@php.net Reported by: rzufall36 at yahoo dot com Summary: Add in_string() function similar to in_array() -Status: Open +Status: Bogus Type: Feature/Change Request Package: Strings related Operating System: Ubuntu 10.04 PHP Version: Irrelevant Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: Use strstr() or stristr() Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2011-01-19 13:55:26] rzufall36 at yahoo dot com Description: ------------ It would be quite helpful to have a helper function in_string(), like in_array(), that checks if a substring is within some string. Sure, with strpos()/stripos(), this can be achieved, but not everyone understands that immediately (and the same could be said about in_array(), which can also be done quite simply with a foreach, but surely not everyone gets that). There's some code how that might work in PHP at MediaWiki http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/phase3/includes/GlobalFunctions.p hp?view=markup which is open-source and could be used. Now it is the question if the third parameter should also be in PHP, but no matter which way, it would still probably not too difficult to create such a helper function. Test script: --------------- # MediaWiki's way of doing this function in_string( $needle, $str, $insensitive = false ) { $func = 'strpos'; if( $insensitive ) $func = 'stripos'; return $func( $str, $needle ) !== false; } # don't use (bool)$func($str, $needle) because it can be 0 (first character) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=53788&edit=1
