when you want to know how much of substring occurrences, you'll use "substr_count".
But, retrieve their positions, will be harder.
So, you can do it by starting with the last occurrence :

function strpos_r($haystack, $needle)
{
    if(strlen($needle) > strlen($haystack))
        trigger_error(sprintf("%s: length of argument 2 must be <= argument 1", __FUNCTION__), E_USER_WARNING);

    $seeks = array();
    while($seek = strrpos($haystack, $needle))
    {
        array_push($seeks, $seek);
        $haystack = substr($haystack, 0, $seek);
    }
    return $seeks;
}

it will return an array of all occurrences a the substring in the string

Example : 

$test = "this is a test for testing a test function... blah blah";
var_dump(strpos_r($test, "test"));

// output 

array(3) {
  [0]=>
  int(29)
  [1]=>
  int(19)
  [2]=>
  int(10)
}

Paul-antoine
Malézieux.