php string like code example

Example 1: if part of stringp ph

$a = 'How are you?';

if (strpos($a, 'are') !== false) {
    echo 'true';
}

Example 2: like %% inside the string php

strpos('STRING', 'SEARCH_ITEM');

--------------OR--------------------
  
preg_match('~' . preg_quote('.SEARCH_ITEM.', '~') . '~', 'STRING');

Example 3: strpos php

<?php
function g($string,$start,$end){
     preg_match_all('/' . preg_quote($start, '/') . '(.*?)'. preg_quote($end, '/').'/i', $string, $m);
     $out = array();

     foreach($m[1] as $key => $value){
       $type = explode('::',$value);
       if(sizeof($type)>1){
          if(!is_array($out[$type[0]]))
             $out[$type[0]] = array();
          $out[$type[0]][] = $type[1];
       } else {
          $out[] = $value;
       }
     }
  return $out;
}
print_r(g('Sample text, [/text to extract/] Rest of sample text [/WEB::http://google.com/] bla bla bla. ','[/','/]'));
?>

results:
Array
(
    [0] => text to extract
    [WEB] => Array
        (
            [0] => http://google.com
        )

)

Can be helpfull to custom parsing :)