$string = 'The lazy fox jumped over the fence';
if (str_contains($string, 'lazy')) {
echo "The string 'lazy' was found in the string\n";
}
$a = 'How are you?';
if (strpos($a, 'are') !== false) {
echo 'true';
}
// this method is new with PHP 8 and above
$haystack = "Damn, I wonder if this string contains a comma.";
if (str_contains($haystack, ",")) {
echo "There is a comma!!";
}
<?php
$mystring = 'abc';
$findme = 'a';
$pos = strpos($mystring, $findme);
// Note our use of ===. Simply == would not work as expected
// because the position of 'a' was the 0th (first) character.
if ($pos === false) {
echo "The string '$findme' was not found in the string '$mystring'";
} else {
echo "The string '$findme' was found in the string '$mystring'";
echo " and exists at position $pos";
}
?>