String Search

[idleyouth]

Could anybody tell me how to Search a string?

$somestring = "something that someone wrote";

How do I search for the word "someone"? Do I use the explode command?

thanks

[Quevas]

If you need only to know if "someone" is present you should try:

eregi("someone",$somestring);
This returns true or false depending if "someone" is present or not.

[idleyouth]

thanks for that.

[edwardsbc]

Unless you need the expanded functionallity of regular expresstions, the standard string functions are much faster.

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.strpos.php