Using strpos(), I'm not getting the results I want. I suspect the problem is in the conditional statements. If the condition is true, everything works fine it seems. But if it is false, the code for the condition true still executes. Here's the code.
<?php
// require_once 'functions/functions.php';
?>
<?php
if (isset($_POST['submit'])) {
$string = $_POST['sentence'];
$findString = $_POST['findstring'];
$strPosition = stripos($string, stringToFind($findString));
// if (($strPosition == true) || ($strPosition == 0)) {
if ($strPosition !== true) {
echo 'Found!', '<br><br>';
echo 'In the string ', $string, '.', '<br>';
echo 'And the word you want to find is ';
$readStr = substr($string, $strPosition, strlen($findString));
echo $readStr, '.', '<br>';
if ($strPosition == 0) {
echo 'It is at the beginning of the string.', '<br>';
}
else {
echo 'It is in the ', $strPosition, ' ', 'position.', '<br>';
}
}
else {
echo 'Not found. Try again.', '<br>';
}
}
function stringToFind($findString)
{
return $findString = $findString;
}
?>
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>String Position</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Finding a string and then read it</h1><br><br>
<form id="form1" class="form" action="<?php echo htmlspecialchars($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']); ?>" method="post">
<label for="sentence">Sentence here:
<textarea id="sentence" name="sentence" value="Put a sentence here."></textarea></label>
Enter a string: <input type="text" name="findstring">
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Go">
</form><br><br>
</body>
</html>
