stripos returns false when special characters is used

Question

I am using the stripos function to check if a string is located inside another string, ignoring any cases.

Here is the problem:

stripos(\"ø\", \"Ø\")         


        

Answer 1

mb_stripos will take care of this.

Answer 2

As the other solutions say, try first with mb_stripos(). But if using this function doesn't help, check the encoding of your php file. Convert it to UTF-8 and save it. That did the trick for me after hours of research.

Answer 3

Use mb_stripos() instead. It's character set aware and will handle multi-byte character sets. stripos() is a holdover from the good old days when there was only ASCII and all chars were only 1 byte.

Answer 4

You need mb_stripos.