Tutorial :find string match

Question:

I need to check a variable to see if the string starts with http:// or https://

if it exists do something else do another. How would I go about doing that?

Solution:1

You're probably looking for:

switch(parse_url($string, PHP_URL_SCHEME)){      case 'https':          //do something      case 'http':          //something else      default:         //anything else you'd like to support?  }

Solution:2

preg_match('!^https?://!', $string)

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Solution:3

The question is unclear. If you just want to know if the string starts with either http or https, you can use

$startsWithIt = (strpos($haystack, 'http') === 0);

If you want the check to include :// you have to do:

if((strpos($haystack, 'http://') === 0) ||      (strpos($haystack, 'https://') === 0)) {         echo 'Strings starts with http:// or https://';      }

If you need to know which of the two it is, use Wrikken's answer.

Solution:4

Here is another one:

function startsWithHttpOrHttps($haystack)  {      return substr_compare($haystack, 'http://', 0, 7) === 0          || substr_compare($haystack, 'https://', 0, 8) === 0;  }

On my machine, this outperformed my double strpos solution (even with added substr to prevent going over the full length string) and Regex.

Solution:5

$startsWithIt = (strpos($haystack, 'http') === 0);

If you want the check to include :// you have to do:

if((strpos($haystack, 'http://') === 0) ||      (strpos($haystack, 'https://') === 0)) {     echo 'Strings starts with http:// or https://';      }

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