php problem: strpos function not working

Question

why is the following php code not working:

$string = \"123\";
$search = \"123\";

if(strpos($string,$search))
{
    echo \"found\";
}else{
    echo \"not fou         


        

Answer 1

This is happening because the search string is being found at position 0. Try

if(strpos($string,$search) !== FALSE)

instead of

if(strpos($string,$search))