strstr() function in PHP is not working whatsoever [closed]

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I'm running PHP 5.3.8 on my local, 5.2.17 on my remote.

strstr() works fine on my local, but when loaded in remote it returns nothing. Even error reporting doesn't say anything.

A simple use of it:

echo strstr('1234567890', '3', true);

should return 12. Instead gives nothing. I'm lost for ideas at this point. How could two identical scripts return different results?

Is it secretly turned off? Or is there a setting I don't know about? Any help much appreciated, thanks.

Answer 1

The third param of strstr was introduced in PHP 5.3.0 so you cannot use this param in your remote server which has PHP 5.2.x

Link here http://php.net/manual/en/function.strstr.php (notice the Change log section)