PHP – String Exists?

Posted on By David Kittell

Sometimes when working strings we need to know if a character or another string is within the string, this below will help.

if (strpos($str, '.') !== FALSE)
{
    echo 'Found it';
}
else
{
    echo "nope!";
}

Reference: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13577041/php-string-contains

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