At 17:15 12/07/00 +0100, you wrote: >Does anyone know the equivalent of JavaScript's indexOf() in PHP? have you checked "strings" chapter of the manual? http://www.php.net/manual/ref.strings.php i'm not a JS guy, but i think indexOf() returns the first occurrence of a substring within a string, from a particular position? you could use strchr() (see http://www.php.net/manual/function.strchr.php) to find the first occurrence of a character, or strstr() (see http://www.php.net/manual/function.strstr.php) for the first occurrence of a string, or stristr() for the same thing as strstr() but without case sensitivity. hope that helps, </ol> ____________________________________________________ v i b e m e d i a http://www.vibe.co.nz/ po box 10-492 wellington, new zealand phone +64 21 210-7845 oliver at lineham.co.nz