PHP string "contains"
PHP 8 or newer:
Use the str_contains
function.
if (str_contains($str, "."))
{
echo 'Found it';
}
else
{
echo 'Not found.';
}
PHP 7 or older:
if (strpos($str, '.') !== FALSE)
{
echo 'Found it';
}
else
{
echo 'Not found.';
}
Note that you need to use the !==
operator. If you use !=
or <>
and the '.'
is found at position 0
, the comparison will evaluate to true because 0
is loosely equal to false
.
You can use these string functions,
strstr — Find the first occurrence of a string
stristr — Case-insensitive strstr()
strrchr — Find the last occurrence of a character in a string
strpos — Find the position of the first occurrence of a substring in a string
strpbrk — Search a string for any of a set of characters
If that doesn't help then you should use preg
regular expression
preg_match — Perform a regular expression match