I found myself needing to find the first position of multiple needles in one haystack.  So I wrote this little function:

<?php
function multineedle_stripos($haystack, $needles, $offset=0) {
    foreach($needles as $needle) {
        $found[$needle] = stripos($haystack, $needle, $offset);
    }
    return $found;
}

// It works as such:
$haystack = "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.";
$needle = array("fox", "dog", ".", "duck")
var_dump(multineedle_stripos($haystack, $needle));
/* Output:
   array(3) {
     ["fox"]=>
     int(16)
     ["dog"]=>
     int(40)
     ["."]=>
     int(43)
     ["duck"]=>
     bool(false)
   }
*/
?>

Unlike strpos() it seems that stripos() does NOT issue a WARNING if the needle is an empty string ''.

Finding numbers in strings requires you to cast the number to string first.

strpos("123", 2) !== strpos("123", "2")

Regarding the === note, it might be worth clarifying that the correct tests for a binary found/not found condition are  !==false to detect found, and ===false to detect not found.

Regarding the function by spam at wikicms dot org

It is very bad practice to use the same function name as an existing php function but have a different output format.  Someone maintaining the code in the future is likely to be very confused by this.  It will also be hard to eradicate from a codebase because the naming is identical so each use of stripos() would have to be analyzed to see how it is expecting the output format (bool or number/bool).

Calling it string_found() or something like that would make a lot more sense for long-term use.