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# strstr

(PHP 3 <= 3.0.18, PHP 4 >= 4.0.0)

strstr -- Find first occurrence of a string

## Description

``string strstr` (string haystack, string needle)`

Returns all of `haystack` from the first occurrence of `needle` to the end.

If `needle` is not found, returns `FALSE`.

If `needle` is not a string, it is converted to an integer and applied as the ordinal value of a character.

> Note: Note that this function is case-sensitive. For case-insensitive searches, use stristr().

Example 1. strstr() example
    $email = 'sterling@designmultimedia.com';
    $domain = strstr($email, '@');
    print $domain; // prints @designmultimedia.com

See also strchr(), stristr(), strrchr(), substr(), and ereg().

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