hi i am totaly a beginner and seeking some simple help. i have a lot of question but right now i am asking u one.

Q.
example i have
$a = http://www.sitename.com/
$b = http://www.sitename.com/page1/index.php
$c = http://www.sitename.com/page2/home.php

how can i compare and search for "http://www.sitename.com" in $b and $c and count how many times it repeats.

thanks in advance.

http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.substr-count.php

PHP Code:

$count = substr_count($b, $a); 


hi thanks i will try to use it.

or, you can use preg_match

instead of
$a = http://www.sitename.com/
$b = http://www.sitename.com/page1/index.php
$c = http://www.sitename.com/page2/home.php

write:

$compare_regex = '/www\.sitename\.com\/page1/';
$ar = array(
'http://www.sitename.com/',
'http://www.sitename.com/page1/index.php',
'http://www.sitename.com/page2/home.php'
); $times = 0;
foreach($ar as $vals) {
if(preg_match($compare_regex, $vals)) $times++;
} echo $times;