Sorry, I made that last post a bit prematurely.  One more thing wrong with the simple php4 version is that it breaks if the string is not found.  It should actually look like this:

<?php
if (function_exists('strripos') == false) {
    function strripos($haystack, $needle) {
        $pos = strlen($haystack) - strpos(strrev($haystack), strrev($needle));
        if ($pos == strlen($haystack)) { $pos = 0; }
        return $pos;
    }
}
?>

Note, we now check to see if the $needle was found, and if it isn't, we return 0.