Check string length in PHP

Question

I have a string that is 141 characters in length. Using the following code I have an if statement to return a message if the string is greater or less than 140.

Answer 1

$message is propably not a string at all, but an array. Use $message[0] to access the first element.

Answer 2

The xpath() function does not return a string. It returns an array with XML elements (of type SimpleXMLElement), which may be casted to a string.

if (count($message)) {
   if (strlen((string)$message[0]) < 141) {
      echo "There Are No Contests.";
   }
   else if(strlen((string)$message[0]) > 142) {
      echo "There is One Active Contest.";
   }
}

Answer 3

[0]=> string(141) means that $message is an array, not string, and $message[0] is a string with 141 characters in length.

Answer 4

[0]=> string(141) means $message is an array so you should do strlen($message[0]) < 141 ...

Answer 5

Because $xml->xpath always return an array, and strlen expects a string.

Answer 6

Try the common syntax instead:

if (strlen($message)<140) {
    echo "less than 140";
}
else
    if (strlen($message)>140) {
        echo "more than 140";
    }
    else {
        echo "exactly 140";
    }