string compairing.

[rmurdo]

I am having a brain freeze!

I have this:

$a = "abcdedf";
$b = "abc";

What I want to do is see if $a starts with $b. If it does print 1 otherwise prints 0.

Any quick ideas? The manual looks like a blurr at the moment. Hahha..

Thanks,

Rob

[luxluxlux]

What you're looking for is strpos().

<?php

$a = 'abcdefg';
$b = 'abc';

if (strpos ($a, $b) === 0) {
  echo '$a starts with $b';

} elseif (strpos ($a, $b) === false) {
  echo '$b is not in $a';

} else {
  echo '$b is in $a at position: ' . strpos ($a, $b);
}

?>

For more info, see:

http://www.php.net/strpos

Cheers,

Lux