PHP 8 Revealed: Use Attributes, the JIT Compiler, Union Types, and More for Web Development​

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G. EngebrethPHP 8 Revealedhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6818-6_11

11. Str_contains

Gunnard Engebreth¹  

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Madison, WI, USA

 

Date: 2020-02-17

Author: Philipp Tanlak

Votes: 43 / 9

I would like to know how many of you reading this currently have a makeshift function in their code base with a similar name and function. While researching this book I informed a colleague of this functionality and he proceeded to show me a str_contains” function in the very code base I use on a daily basis! Needless to say, this has been needed in PHP for a while. As the name implies, this function returns true/false if a string is contained in another given string. As per many ...