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

strpos returns the numeric position of the string you want to search for if it finds it. So in your case, you want to be doing this instead:

$search = "123";
$string = "123";
if (strpos($string,$search)===false) { echo "not found"; }
else { echo "found"; }

basically it returns a false if it doesn't find your string