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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
+<!-- $Revision: 1.1 $ -->
+  <refentry id="function.strripos">
+   <refnamediv>
+    <refname>strripos</refname>
+    <refpurpose>
+     Find position of last occurrence of a case-insensitive string in a string
+    </refpurpose>
+   </refnamediv>
+   <refsect1>
+    <title>Description</title>
+    <methodsynopsis>
+     <type>int</type><methodname>strripos</methodname>
+     <methodparam><type>string</type><parameter>haystack</parameter></methodparam>
+     <methodparam><type>string</type><parameter>needle</parameter></methodparam>
+    </methodsynopsis>
+    <para>
+     Returns the numeric position of the last occurrence of
+     <parameter>needle</parameter> in the
+     <parameter>haystack</parameter> string.  Unlike
+     <function>strrpos</function>, <function>strripos</function> is
+     case-insensitive.  Also note that string positions start at 0, and not
+     1. 
+    </para>
+    <para>
+     If <parameter>needle</parameter> is not found, &false; is returned.
+    </para>
+    
+    &return.falseproblem;    
+    
+    <para>
+     <example>
+      <title>A simple <function>strripos</function> example</title>
+      <programlisting role="php">
+<![CDATA[
+<?php
+$haystack = 'ababcd';
+$needle   = 'ab';
+
+$pos      = strripos($haystack, $needle);
+
+if ($pos === false) {
+    echo "Sorry, we did not find ($needle) in ($haystack)";
+} else {
+    echo "Congratulations!\n";
+    echo "We found the last ($needle) in ($haystack) at position ($pos)";
+}
+
+/* Outputs:
+
+   Congratulations!
+   We found the last (ab) in (ababcd) at position (2)
+
+*/
+?>
+]]>
+      </programlisting>
+     </example>
+    </para>
+    <para>
+     See also <function>strrpos</function>,
+     <function>strrchr</function>, 
+     <function>substr</function>, and 
+     <function>stristr</function>.
+    </para>
+   </refsect1>
+  </refentry>
+
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