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Matteoweb answered on August 6, 2019 Popularity 10/10 Helpfulness 5/10

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startsWith() and endsWith() functions in PHP

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function startsWith($haystack, $needle)
{
     $length = strlen($needle);
     return (substr($haystack, 0, $length) === $needle);
}

function endsWith($haystack, $needle)
{
    $length = strlen($needle);
    if ($length == 0) {
        return true;
    }

    return (substr($haystack, -$length) === $needle);
}

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//PHP8

$string = 'The lazy fox jumped over the fence';

if (str_ends_with($string, 'fence')) {
    echo "The string ends with 'fence'\n";
}

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//php check if first four characters of a string = http
substr( $http, 0, 4 ) === "http";
//php check if first five characters of a string = https
substr( $https, 0, 5 ) === "https";

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//php check if first characters of $str = "test"
$str = "test demo";
str_starts_with($str, "test");

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function stringStartsWith($haystack,$needle,$case=true) {
    if ($case){
        return strpos($haystack, $needle, 0) === 0;
    }
    return stripos($haystack, $needle, 0) === 0;
}

function stringEndsWith($haystack,$needle,$case=true) {
    $expectedPosition = strlen($haystack) - strlen($needle);
    if ($case){
        return strrpos($haystack, $needle, 0) === $expectedPosition;
    }
    return strripos($haystack, $needle, 0) === $expectedPosition;
}
echo stringStartsWith("Hello World","Hell"); // true
echo stringEndsWith("Hello World","World"); // true

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Contributed on Aug 06 2019

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For before PHP 8.0

function endsWith( $haystack, $needle ) {
    $length = strlen( $needle );
    if( !$length ) {
        return true;
    }
    return substr( $haystack, -$length ) === $needle;
}

For php 8.0+ there is built in function: str_ends_with

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