simple array help

[joma]

i know what i have got is completly wrong...obvious coz it doesn't work. what i want to do is search $product_info['model_maker'] for something the same, i can't make it equals because sometimes the $product_info['model_maker'] might be Dreamtime Cruiser 4x4, so i want it to just get the dreamtime and return my echo.

i realise it is not stristr, but don't know what to put here. any help would be great. thankyou

<?php
 $string = $product_info['model_maker'];

if (stristr($string, 'magnifique') === TRUE) {
   $magnifique = "tPath=4_8";
   echo '&nbsp;' . '<a onMouseover="show_text(3,\'div1\')" onMouseout="resetit(\'div1\')" href="' . tep_href_link(FILENAME_ARTICLES, $magnifique) . '"><img border="0" src="images/specs.png"></a>';
  }
     elseif (stristr($string, 'sapphire') === TRUE) {
   $sapphire = "tPath=4_7";
   echo '&nbsp;' . '<a onMouseover="show_text(3,\'div1\')" onMouseout="resetit(\'div1\')" href="' . tep_href_link(FILENAME_ARTICLES, $sapphire) . '"><img border="0" src="images/specs.png"></a>';
  }
     elseif (stristr($string, 'daintree') === TRUE) {
   $daintree = "tPath=4_5";
   echo '&nbsp;' . '<a onMouseover="show_text(3,\'div1\')" onMouseout="resetit(\'div1\')" href="' . tep_href_link(FILENAME_ARTICLES, $daintree) . '"><img border="0" src="images/specs.png"></a>';
  }
   elseif (stristr($string, 'dreamtime') === TRUE) {
   $dreamtime = "tPath=4_6";
   echo '&nbsp;' . '<a onMouseover="show_text(3,\'div1\')" onMouseout="resetit(\'div1\')" href="' . tep_href_link(FILENAME_ARTICLES, $dreamtime) . '"><img border="0" src="images/specs.png"></a>';
  }
   elseif (stristr($string, 'vacationer') === TRUE) {
   $vacationer = "tPath=4_10";
   echo '&nbsp;' . '<a onMouseover="show_text(3,\'div1\')" onMouseout="resetit(\'div1\')" href="' . tep_href_link(FILENAME_ARTICLES, $vacationer) . '"><img border="0" src="images/specs.png"></a>';
  }
   elseif (stristr($string, 'retreat') === TRUE) {
   $retreat = "tPath=4_9";
   echo '&nbsp;' . '<a onMouseover="show_text(3,\'div1\')" onMouseout="resetit(\'div1\')" href="' . tep_href_link(FILENAME_ARTICLES, $retreat) . '"><img border="0" src="images/specs.png"></a>';
  }
   elseif (stristr($string, 'aurora') === TRUE) {
   $aurora = "tPath=13_17";
   echo '&nbsp;' . '<a onMouseover="show_text(3,\'div1\')" onMouseout="resetit(\'div1\')" href="' . tep_href_link(FILENAME_ARTICLES, $aurora) . '"><img border="0" src="images/specs.png"></a>';
  }
   elseif (stristr($string, 'sapphire') === TRUE) {
    $compact = "tPath=13_18";
   echo '&nbsp;' . '<a onMouseover="show_text(3,\'div1\')" onMouseout="resetit(\'div1\')" href="' . tep_href_link(FILENAME_ARTICLES, $sapphire) . '"><img border="0" src="images/specs.png"></a>';
  }
   elseif (stristr($string, 'gts') === TRUE) {
   $gts = "tPath=13_15";
   echo '&nbsp;' . '<a onMouseover="show_text(3,\'div1\')" onMouseout="resetit(\'div1\')" href="' . tep_href_link(FILENAME_ARTICLES, $gts) . '"><img border="0" src="images/specs.png"></a>';
  }
   elseif (stristr($string, 'nautilus') === TRUE) {
   $nautilus = "tPath=13_14";
   echo '&nbsp;' . '<a onMouseover="show_text(3,\'div1\')" onMouseout="resetit(\'div1\')" href="' . tep_href_link(FILENAME_ARTICLES, $nautilus) . '"><img border="0" src="images/specs.png"></a>';
  }
   elseif (stristr($string, 'sextant') === TRUE) {
   $sextant = "tPath=13_16";
   echo '&nbsp;' . '<a onMouseover="show_text(3,\'div1\')" onMouseout="resetit(\'div1\')" href="' . tep_href_link(FILENAME_ARTICLES, $sextant) . '"><img border="0" src="images/specs.png"></a>';
  }

  else {'11'; }?> 

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[NogDog]

stristr() either returns a string or boolean false, but never returns boolean true. So you might have better luck to make your comparisons !== false.

[joma]

yeah, that is ok, but it is showing it on everything that doesn't contain my values, what string will return as TRUE ???

I solved the problem. by using

if (stristr($haystack, '$needle') === FALSE) { will return false }
if (stristr($haystack, '$needle')) { will return true }

thanks for your help

[NogDog]

joma wrote:

...
if (stristr($haystack, '$needle')) { will return true }

It shouldn't matter in what you are currently doing, but just be aware that there is a circumstance when that expression would not return true even if it found it: if the string that it returns happens to be "0" (the zero character) which will then be cast to a boolean false. Thus the safest check is the "not identical to false" comparison:

if(stristr($hasystack, $needle) !== false) { // the string was found }

The same sort of thing holds true with strpos(), since it returns the position of the string when it is found, and that position could be 0 (the first character), so you again want to ensure that it is not boolean false:

if(strpos($haystack, $needle) !== false) { // found it }

[joma]

lol, i didn't even realise you replaced the = with a !, sorry, thanks for your help. this forum is excellent. great reply speed. thanks heaps