strstr question...

[laeelin]

The manual says:

string strstr (string haystack, string needle)

Returns all of haystack from the first occurrence of needle to the end.

however when I tryed to use it in the following code:

// $keys[$i] = catagory_edit_5  

if($item=strstr($keys[$i], 'catagory_edit_')){
	echo "$item";
}

$item should echo as the number 5 from what I understand, but it is echoing "catagory_edit_5" ...

Does anyone konw what i'm doing wrong?

Thanks
Laeelin

[Weedpacket]

The manual is ambiguous: it should say "from the start of the first occurrence of needle to the end."

[Mordecai]

if($item=strstr($keys[$i], 'catagory_edit')){
echo str_replace("catagory_edit","",$item);
} // This just replaces what you searched for, so it only shows what's AFTER that occurance.

By the way, it's category.

[laeelin]

category

I dont spellcheck my code grins

thanks though =)

edit:

the example code here on phpbuilder is incorrect:

http://www.phpbuilder.com/manual/function.strstr.php

  $email = '[e-mail]';
  $domain = strstr ($email, '@');
  print $domain; // prints designmultimedia.com

thanks
Laeelin

[Weedpacket]

The canonical entry at http://www.php.net/strstr is correct.