strrev
Suppose you just need a stripos function working backwards expecting that strripos does this job, you better use the following code of a custom function named strbipos:
<?php
function strbipos($haystack="", $needle="", $offset=0) {
// Search backwards in $haystack for $needle starting from $offset and return the position found or false
$len = strlen($haystack);
$pos = stripos(strrev($haystack), strrev($needle), $len - $offset - 1);
return ( ($pos === false) ? false : $len - strlen($needle) - $pos );
}
// Test
$body = "01234Xy7890XYz456xy90";
$str = "xY";
$len = strlen($body);
echo "TEST POSITIVE offset VALUES IN strbipos<br>";
for ($i = 0; $i < $len; $i++) {
echo "Search in [$body] for [$str] starting from offset [$i]: [" . strbipos($body, $str, $i) . "]<br>";
}
?>
Note that this function does exactly what it says and its results are different comparing to PHP 5 strripos function.
strripos
(PHP 5)
strripos — Find position of last occurrence of a case-insensitive string in a string
Description
int strripos
( string $haystack
, string $needle
[, int $offset
] )
Find position of last occurrence of a case-insensitive string in a string. Unlike strrpos(), strripos() is case-insensitive.
Parameters
- haystack
-
The string to search in
- needle
-
Note that the needle may be a string of one or more characters.
- offset
-
The offset parameter may be specified to begin searching an arbitrary number of characters into the string.
Negative offset values will start the search at offset characters from the start of the string.
Return Values
Returns the numerical position of the last occurence of needle . Also note that string positions start at 0, and not 1.
If needle is not found, FALSE is returned.
Warning
This function may return Boolean FALSE, but may also return a non-Boolean value which evaluates to FALSE, such as 0 or "". Please read the section on Booleans for more information. Use the === operator for testing the return value of this function.
Examples
Example #1 A simple strripos() example
<?php
$haystack = 'ababcd';
$needle = 'aB';
$pos = strripos($haystack, $needle);
if ($pos === false) {
echo "Sorry, we did not find ($needle) in ($haystack)";
} else {
echo "Congratulations!\n";
echo "We found the last ($needle) in ($haystack) at position ($pos)";
}
?>
The above example will output:
Congratulations! We found the last (aB) in (ababcd) at position (2)
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User Contributed Notesstrripos
dimmav at in dot gr
25-Sep-2008 06:31
25-Sep-2008 06:31
peev[dot]alexander at gmail dot com
20-Apr-2008 11:14
20-Apr-2008 11:14
OK, I guess this will be the final function implementation for PHP 4.x versions ( my previous posts are invalid )
<?php
if(!function_exists("stripos")){
function stripos( $str, $needle, $offset = 0 ){
return strpos( strtolower( $str ), strtolower( $needle ), $offset );
}/* endfunction stripos */
}/* endfunction exists stripos */
if(!function_exists("strripos")){
function strripos( $haystack, $needle, $offset = 0 ) {
if( !is_string( $needle ) )$needle = chr( intval( $needle ) );
if( $offset < 0 ){
$temp_cut = strrev( substr( $haystack, 0, abs($offset) ) );
}
else{
$temp_cut = strrev( substr( $haystack, 0, max( ( strlen($haystack) - $offset ), 0 ) ) );
}
if( ( $found = stripos( $temp_cut, strrev($needle) ) ) === FALSE )return FALSE;
$pos = ( strlen( $haystack ) - ( $found + $offset + strlen( $needle ) ) );
return $pos;
}/* endfunction strripos */
}/* endfunction exists strripos */
?>
peev[dot]alexander at gmail dot com
23-Nov-2007 12:05
23-Nov-2007 12:05
Oops, I forgot to return "false" if the needle is not found. Here is the proper function.
<?php
if(!function_exists("strripos")){
function strripos($haystack, $needle, $offset=0) {
if($offset<0){
$temp_cut = strrev( substr( $haystack, 0, abs($offset) ) );
}
else{
$temp_cut = strrev( substr( $haystack, $offset ) );
}
$pos = strlen($haystack) - (strpos($temp_cut, strrev($needle)) + $offset + strlen($needle));
if ($pos == strlen($haystack)) { $pos = 0; }
if(strpos($temp_cut, strrev($needle))===false){
return false;
}
else return $pos;
}/* endfunction strripos*/
}/* endfunction exists strripos*/
?>
peev[dot]alexander at gmail dot com
18-Oct-2007 02:23
18-Oct-2007 02:23
I think you shouldn't underestimate the length of $needle in the search of THE FIRST POSITION of it's last occurrence in the string. I improved the posted function, with added support for offset. I think this is an exact copy of the real function:
<?php
if(!function_exists("strripos")){
function strripos($haystack, $needle, $offset=0) {
if($offset<0){
$temp_cut = strrev( substr( $haystack, 0, abs($offset) ) );
}
else{
$temp_cut = strrev( substr( $haystack, $offset ) );
}
$pos = strlen($haystack) - (strpos($temp_cut, strrev($needle)) + $offset + strlen($needle));
if ($pos == strlen($haystack)) { $pos = 0; }
return $pos;
}/* endfunction strripos*/
}/* endfunction exists strripos*/
?>
ElectroFox
02-Aug-2007 10:59
02-Aug-2007 10:59
Sorry, I made that last post a bit prematurely. One more thing wrong with the simple php4 version is that it breaks if the string is not found. It should actually look like this:
<?php
if (function_exists('strripos') == false) {
function strripos($haystack, $needle) {
$pos = strlen($haystack) - strpos(strrev($haystack), strrev($needle));
if ($pos == strlen($haystack)) { $pos = 0; }
return $pos;
}
}
?>
Note, we now check to see if the $needle was found, and if it isn't, we return 0.
ElectroFox
02-Aug-2007 10:39
02-Aug-2007 10:39
Actually, the above, "Simple way to implement this function in PHP 4" by Yanik Lupien, should be:
<?php
if (function_exists('strripos') == false) {
function strripos($haystack, $needle) {
return strlen($haystack) - strpos(strrev($haystack), strrev($needle));
}
}
?>
Note the reversal (<?php strrev($needle)?>) of the search string. This was left out in Yanik's example, and without it, you'll simply get the length of the haystack, as the forward string will not likely be found in the reversed haystack.
Thus; if we reverse the haystack, any instance of the search string ($needle) therein will also be reversed, so we must reverse it to look for it. :)
Yanik Lupien
03-Jul-2007 07:47
03-Jul-2007 07:47
Simple way to implement this function in PHP 4
<?php
if (function_exists('strripos') == false) {
function strripos($haystack, $needle) {
return strlen($haystack) - strpos(strrev($haystack), $needle);
}
}
?>
aidan at php dot net
30-May-2004 07:36
30-May-2004 07:36
This functionality is now implemented in the PEAR package PHP_Compat.
More information about using this function without upgrading your version of PHP can be found on the below link:
http://pear.php.net/package/PHP_Compat