Checking the characters in a string

Question

I would like to see if the string "profile.php" ends in or the last 4 charcaters equal ".php"

How can I do this with PHP

Thanks!

[What have you tried?](http://www.whathaveyoutried.com/) This really is easy in PHP. See [ask advice](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/ask-advice), please. — John Conde, Mar 04 '13 at 18:30
possible duplicate of [PHP startsWith() and endsWith() functions](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/834303/php-startswith-and-endswith-functions) — Salman A, Mar 04 '13 at 18:35

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 04 '13 at 18:34

1

Use substr() to get the last 4 characters, then compare it to the string ".php".

if (substr("profile.php", -4) === ".php")
{
    echo "Ends in .php";
}
else
{
    echo "Doesn't end in .php";
}

answered Mar 04 '13 at 18:34

Rich Adams

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 04 '13 at 18:39

You can try PHP's inbuilt function pathinfo.

<?php
$path_parts = pathinfo('/www/htdocs/inc/lib.inc.php');
echo $path_parts['dirname'], "\n";
echo $path_parts['basename'], "\n";
echo $path_parts['extension'], "\n"; // return php
echo $path_parts['filename'], "\n";
?>

Checking the characters in a string

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