strpos
is a function that allows you to find if a specific word or combination of characters present in the string you provided. It's like yes/no and additionally, it can give you it's start location. It is important to note that it will return false when nothing is found or a number, including 0 when the match is found.
So this function is very good for simple scenarios like does it have lettersapp
in the wordapple
? the answer is yes, and the start position is 0.
In the example, you providedif (strpos($link, 'rel') === false)
it searches if word rel is present, and it doesn't matter in what position.
preg_match
is used for much complex searching using regex, capable of searching multiple conditions, groups and more. To give an example of what it can search: the wordapprehensive
does it starts withapp
and ends withsive
? - answer yes. Ifstrpos
would've been used, it would say yes to all such cases due to theapp
being present but the ending is never checked as it's incapable of such thing.preg_match
can commonly be used to get what's inside of an attribute, so it grabs rel="[what's here]".
Preg_replace
is replacing something using regex for complex searching first, then do the replacement of a match.
I would always advise to read up documentation provided by php for the functions and it's accepted arguments.
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