Hi Warwick
I'd suggest looking at the PHP manual, it is available at
http://www.php.net.
You can look for string functions in the manual.
If you were looking for a case insensitive comparision you could use
stristr, if you are looking for a case senstivie comparision you could use
strstr.
<?php // code to see if john is in the variable
$jeff = 'my name is john';
if (stristr($jeff, 'john')) {
print 'john is in the variable';
} else {
print 'john is not in the variable';
}
?>
If you are trying to see if the variable is John then you could do this
<?
if ($jeff == 'John')) {
print 'the variable is set to John';
} else {
print 'the variable is not set to John';
}
?>
There are other ways to do this, this is just an example I created.
Jason
----- Original Message -----
From: "Warwick Berg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Newsgroups: php.general
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 5:55 AM
Subject: comparisons
> Hi
>
> Just learning php from the bottom. Can someone help with syntax please?
>
> Want to know about using ifs :
>
> If the string value "john" is present in the variable "jeff" then do, etc,
> etc. How do we see if a value is present in a string?
>
> Thanks
> Warwick
>
>
>
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