match whole word only without regex

Question

Since i cant use preg_match (UTF8 support is somehow broken, it works locally but breaks at production) i want to find another way to match word against blacklist. Problem is, i

Answer 1

You can use strrpos() instead of strpos:

strrpos — Find the position of the last occurrence of a substring in a string

$string = "This is a string containing badwords and one badword";
var_dump(strrpos($string, 'badword'));

Output:

45