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PHP Enhancing a Simple PHP Application Adding Search: Model Performing the Search

Leigh Maher
Leigh Maher
21,830 Points
Posted by Leigh Maher
Leigh Maher
21,830 Points

Ok to use is_int function here?

When I was trying to work out the logic of using the !==false here, I thought it might be easier to check if the result is an integer instead of not false. For me if I was to look back at this at a later stage it might make it more readable.

It gave me the same result in this instance, so I'm wondering is it ok to use that function instead?

Here's the code I used:

<?php
function get_products_search($s) {
    $results = array();
    $all = get_products_all();
    foreach ($all as $product) {
        $name = $product['name'];
        $pos = stripos($name, $s);
        if (is_int($pos)) {
            $results[] = $product;  
        }
    }
    return $results;
}
?>