problem writing text search function

PHP use the keyword "return" for returning a value from a function. And
variables are not global by default. Hence:

function textsearch($the_items_description)
{
global $search_for;

$pos = strpos($the_items_description, $search_for);

if ($pos === false) {
return false;
} else {
return true;
}
}

or shorter:

function textsearch($the_items_description)
{
global $search_for;

$pos = strpos($the_items_description, $search_for);

return ($pos !== false);
}

or shorter still:

strstr($the_items_description, $search_for);

Uzytkownik "Matthew Robinson" <mattyrobinson69@hotmail.com> napisal w
wiadomosci news:pan.2004.01.09.20.48.56.405332@hotmail.com...
> i get "Parse error: parse error in /home/houseproudlancs_co_uk/search.php
> on line 65" when i open the page, line 65 would be the line that starts
> with if (textsearch
>
> $search_for = "is";
> $the_items_description = "this is where the description would go";
> if (textsearch($item_category) == true {
> echo ("correct");
> } else {
> echo ("incorrect");
> }
>
>
> function textsearch($the_items_description)
> {
>
> $pos = strpos($the_items_description, $search_for);
>
> if ($pos === false) {
> textsearch = false;
> } else {
> textsearch = true;
> }

I noticed that Message-ID: <pan.2004.01.09.22.58.44.430581@hotmail.com>
from Matthew Robinson contained the following:

>$search_for = "is";
>$the_items_description = "this is where the description would go";
>if (textsearch($item_category)) == true {
>echo ("correct");
>} else {
>echo ("incorrect");
>}

well you know it should be

if (textsearch($item_category) == true){...}

now, but for this test did you not perhaps mean to write

$item_category = "this is where the description would go";
if (textsearch($item_category == true)) {...}
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