Quote:
Originally Posted by GrouchyAdmin
If you have:
Code:
$data="hello";
$testfor="h";
$test=strpos($data, $testfor);
echo ($test) ? "'$testfor' found in '$data'.\n" : "'$testfor' not found in '$data'.\n";
It would say 'h' not found in 'hello', because the 'h' is at the beginning, or offset 0, which also means FALSE to PHP. |
That's does not look like an error or anything strange to me.
I don't do php, so tell me if I'm wrong:
You tested for the "string position" of "h" and it retuned position zero, which means it was found!! The first index of a string is "0", so it found "h" in the very first index of the string "hello".
Then you do a boolean test on the result for the "echo", correct?.
You can only do a boolean test of a result that will return either 0 or 1 and nothing else.
Change the "h" to "o"
$testfor="o";
$test=strpos($data, $testfor);
And it returns "4" right?
If the "h" was not found then the function either returns "-1" or "string::nopos", right?
Neither of those are boolean values.
Your example doesn't illustrate a problem with php, instead it illustrates that you tried to do a boolean test on a non-boolean result.
Right???