search for a string php code example

Example 1: php needle haystack

//Find the position of the first occurrence of a substring in a string
$mystring = 'abc';
$findme   = 'a';
$pos = strpos($mystring, $findme);

Example 2: strpos in php

<?php
// We can search for the character, ignoring anything before the offset
$newstring = 'abcdef abcdef';
$pos = strpos($newstring, 'a', 1); // $pos = 7, not 0
?>

Example 3: strpos

strpos ( string $haystack , mixed $needle [, int $offset = 0 ] ) : int