Question

I am not able to get a stristr function to come back true, and I believe it is because of a $ character in my search.

When I do:
var_dump($nopricecart);

Where the full $nopricecart value is <span class="pricedisplay">$0</span>, I get:

string(41) “$0”

But when I do:

if(stristr($nopricecart , "$0")){
   echo "*";
   } else { 
   echo $nopricecart;
}

I always get the variable of $nopricecart, even when it is $0.

Removing the $ from my if function works perfectly, but this is not going to work for my code.

Answer 1

The string(41) should give it away: It appears there are a LOT of non-printable characters in your string. Find out where they are coming from and remove them, and your code should work.