PHP Tutorial - PHP strcasecmp() Function






Definition

This is a case-insensitive version of the strcmp().

Syntax

PHP strcasecmp() Function has the following syntax.

int strcasecmp ( string str1, string str2 )

Parameter

str1 and str2 are the two string values we will compare.

Return

PHP strcmp() Function returns

  • -1 if word one comes alphabetically before word two,
  • 1 if word one comes alphabetically after word two, or
  • 0 if word one and word two are the same.




Example

case-insensitive string value compare


<?PHP
$result = strcasecmp("Hello", "hello"); 
?>