<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >substr_count</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="PHP Manual" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="String functions" HREF="ref.strings.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="strtr" HREF="function.strtr.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="substr_replace" HREF="function.substr-replace.html"><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="refentry" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >PHP Manual</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.strtr.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.substr-replace.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="function.substr-count" ></A >substr_count</H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN91698" ></A ><P > (PHP 4 )</P >substr_count -- Count the number of substring occurrences</DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN91701" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 >int <B CLASS="methodname" >substr_count</B > ( string haystack, string needle)<BR ></BR ><P > <B CLASS="function" >substr_count()</B > returns the number of times the <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >needle</I ></TT > substring occurs in the <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >haystack</I ></TT > string. </P ><P > <TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" CLASS="EXAMPLE" ><TR ><TD ><DIV CLASS="example" ><A NAME="AEN91717" ></A ><P ><B >Example 1. <B CLASS="function" >substr_count()</B > example</B ></P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="php" ><?php print substr_count("This is a test", "is"); // prints out 2 ?></PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></TD ></TR ></TABLE > </P ><P > See also <A HREF="function.count-chars.html" ><B CLASS="function" >count_chars()</B ></A >, <A HREF="function.strpos.html" ><B CLASS="function" >strpos()</B ></A >, <A HREF="function.substr.html" ><B CLASS="function" >substr()</B ></A >, and <A HREF="function.strstr.html" ><B CLASS="function" >strstr()</B ></A >. </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.strtr.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.substr-replace.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >strtr</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ref.strings.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >substr_replace</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >