Question

I am using simple html dom parser

foreach($html->find('a') as $element) {
    //produce results
    if(strpos($element, 'string')) {
       $myarray[] = $element->href;
    }
}

vs

foreach($html->find('a') as $element) {
    //not producing result
    if(strpos($element->href, 'string')) {
       $myarray[] = $element->href;
    }
}

Why when i add strpos function to element->href, it never detect the word string even tho the href has string keyword.

Answer 1

strpos('monkey', 'm') will return 0. 0 will be seen as false by PHP. If $element->href starts with string, it will not go inside the if.

Use

strpos(..., ...) === false

or

strpos(..., ...) !== false