PHP boiler plate (Important things that we use often)

php_boilerpalte.php

<?php

// indexOf equivalent (get pos of a string within another)
int strpos ( string $haystack , mixed $needle [, int $offset = 0 ] )
  // http://php.net/manual/en/function.strpos.php
  
  $pos = strpos($mystring, $findme);

// Note our use of ===.  Simply == would not work as expected
// because the position of 'a' was the 0th (first) character.
if ($pos === false) {
    echo "The string '$findme' was not found in the string '$mystring'";
} else {
    echo "The string '$findme' was found in the string '$mystring'";
    echo " and exists at position $pos";
}




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