PHP Find all occurrences of a substring in a string

Question

I need to parse an HTML document and to find all occurrences of string asdf in it.

I currently have the HTML loaded into a string variable. I would just

Answer 1

Without using regex, something like this should work for returning the string positions:

$html = "ffffdasdfffffdasdffff";
$needle = "asdf";
$lastPos = 0;
$positions = array();

while (($lastPos = strpos($html, $needle, $lastPos))!== false) {
    $positions[] = $lastPos;
    $lastPos = $lastPos + strlen($needle);
}

// Displays 3 and 10
foreach ($positions as $value) {
    echo $value ."
";
}