Check if URL has certain string with PHP - php

Question

I would like to know if some word is present in the URL.
For example, if word car is in the URL, like www.domain.com/car/ or www.domain.com/car/audi/ it would echo 'car is exist' and if there's nothing it would echo 'no cars'.

Answer 1

Try something like this. The first row builds your URL and the rest check if it contains the word "car".
$url = 'http://' . $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] . $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
if (strpos($url,'car') !== false) {
echo 'Car exists.';
} else {
echo 'No cars.';
}

Answer 2

I think the easiest way is:
if (strpos($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], "car") !== false){
// car found
}

Answer 3

$url = " www.domain.com/car/audi/";
if (strpos($url, "car")!==false){
echo "Car here";
}
else {
echo "No car here :(";
}
See strpos manual

Answer 4

if( strpos( $url, $word ) !== false ) {
// Do something
}

Answer 5

worked for me with php
if(strpos($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], 'shop.php') !== false){
echo 'url contains shop';
}

Answer 6

This worked for me:
// Check if URL contains the word "car" or "CAR"
if (stripos($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], 'car' )!==false){
echo "Car here";
} else {
echo "No car here";
}
If you want to use HTML in the echo, be sure to use ' ' instead of " ".
I use this code to show an alert on my webpage https://geaskb.nl/
where the URL contains the word "Omnik"
but hide the alert on pages that do not contain the word "Omnik" in the URL.
Explanation stripos : https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.stripos

Answer 7

strstr didn't exist back then?
if(strstr($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], "car")) {
echo "car found";
}
This must be one of the easiest methods right?

Answer 8

Have a look at the strpos function:
if(false !== strpos($url,'car')) {
echo 'Car exists!';
}
else {
echo 'No cars.';
}

Answer 9

Surely this is the correct way round....
$url = 'http://' . $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] . $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
if (!strpos($url,'mysql')) {
echo 'No mysql.'; //swapped with other echo statement
} else {
echo 'Mysql exists.';
}
Otherwise its reporting the opposite way it should...

Answer 10

Starting with PHP 8 (2020-11-24), you can use str_contains:
if (str_contains('www.domain.com/car/', 'car')) {
echo 'car is exist';
} else {
echo 'no cars';
}

Answer 11

You can try an .htaccess method similar to the concept of how wordpress works.
Reference: http://monkeytooth.net/2010/12/htaccess-php-how-to-wordpress-slugs/
But I'm not sure if thats what your looking for exactly per say..

Answer 12

$url = 'http://' . $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] . $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
if (!strpos($url,'car')) {
echo 'Car exists.';
} else {
echo 'No cars.';
}
This seems to work.