matches "ishwasher" but not "dishwasher"

[devknob]

This code works, I am trying to disqualify certain keywords from a website I am scraping. For some reason, the D in the word dishwasher keeps a match from happening so i have to do this without the d. I just dont understand WHY.

I tried it where both of them use Clean_String() which has a strtolower and tirm in it. The subject looks right, I tried utf8_encode() to make sure they were both the correct encoding but nothing works.

 

Can anyone explain why the letter D is causing the word 'dishwasher' to not trigger strpos when I have the word 'dishwasher' in my disqualify array?

 

$disqualify = array("ish-washer","ishwasher");
foreach($disqualify as $dis)
{
	if(strpos(Clean_String($subject[0]), $dis))
	{
		$status = 0;
		$color = "FF0000";
	}
}

[devknob]

echo Clean_String($subject[0]);

 

this ouputs:

dishwasher built-in

[devknob]

i know encoding and datatypes can cause confusion, but this is string for string, and i did the utf8 encode too....

 

Are there any other potential reasons why "dishwasher" is not equal to "dishwasher" (yeah the same string) in php?

[Mchl]

From manual entry for strpos

 

Returns the position as an integer. If needle is not found, strpos() will return boolean  FALSE.

 

So when you look for 'dishwasher' in 'dishwasher' it returns 0. 0 cast to boolean evaluates to false.You need type comparison here.

 

if(strpos(Clean_String($subject[0]), $dis) !== false) {...

[devknob]

thanks a ton, workin =)