PHP in a Nutshell

Name

strstr()

Synopsis

    string strstr ( string haystack, string needle )

The strstr() function and its case-insensitive cousin, stristr(), is a nice and easy function that finds the first occurrence of a substring (parameter two) inside another string (parameter one), and returns all characters from the first occurrence to the end of the string. This next example will match the "www" part of the URL http://www.example.com/mypage.php, then return everything from the "www" until the end of the string:

    $string = "http://www.example.com/mypage.php";
    $newstring = strstr($string, "www");