Check if URL has certain string with 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'.

This also depends if you just looking for the word car or if you also want the type of car or cars too. You might need preg_match, strpos, explode and in_array/array_search, really just depends. if you want something simple, just use strpos as suggested — Matt
– Matt, Commented Aug 19, 2011 at 8:31
You might find s($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'])->contains('car') helpful, as found in this standalone library. — caw
– caw, Commented Jul 27, 2016 at 0:41
What if the url contains the word "scared"? Should that print "car is exist"? If not, most of the answers here are wrong. — doug65536
– doug65536, Commented Oct 14, 2016 at 7:10

aug · Accepted Answer · 2015-02-26 21:17:40Z

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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.';
}

edited Feb 26, 2015 at 21:17

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answered Aug 19, 2011 at 8:33

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Javacadabra Over a year ago

This is a good solution but just be wary that this will match a URL that has car anywhere. For example www.domain.com/car-pricing or www.domain.com/carparks will validate and output Car exists. Maybe it doesn't matter in your case but for others it might be relevant!

Si8 Over a year ago

$url = 'http://' . $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] . $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']; echo count(strpos($url,'category')); gives me 1 regardless of whether category exist in the Url or not. Any idea why?

Filnor Over a year ago

From PHP 8.0 onwards, you can also use str_contains($url, 'car'): php.net/manual/en/function.str-contains.php

SohailRajput · Accepted Answer · 2015-03-30 09:05:21Z

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I think the easiest way is:

if (strpos($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], "car") !== false){
// car found
}

edited Mar 30, 2015 at 9:05

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answered Mar 5, 2015 at 10:11

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Tingo Over a year ago

Perfect... I needed to match example.com/events/pagename to find any urls with "events" in them and it works!

Pegues Over a year ago

I've used this several times in the past week on 4 different projects. Simple. Thanks.

tklodd Over a year ago

This does not test the full url; only the path. It will not test against the scheme, domain, port, query parameters, or fragment.

J0HN · Accepted Answer · 2011-08-19 08:27:58Z

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

See strpos manual

answered Aug 19, 2011 at 8:27

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nobody · Accepted Answer · 2011-08-19 08:27:54Z

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

answered Aug 19, 2011 at 8:27

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Mars · Accepted Answer · 2020-09-28 19:44:11Z

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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

edited Sep 28, 2020 at 19:44

answered Jul 2, 2020 at 19:31

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Shuhad zaman · Accepted Answer · 2018-08-18 08:42:18Z

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worked for me with php

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

answered Aug 18, 2018 at 8:42

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Mark Rotteveel Over a year ago

This is essentially identical to this three your old answer. Why bother posting an answer like that?

Mathijs Segers · Accepted Answer · 2015-01-25 13:21:54Z

4

strstr didn't exist back then?

if(strstr($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], "car")) {
   echo "car found";
}

This must be one of the easiest methods right?

answered Jan 25, 2015 at 13:21

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teemitzitrone · Accepted Answer · 2011-08-19 10:40:07Z

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Have a look at the strpos function:

if(false !== strpos($url,'car')) {
    echo 'Car exists!';
}
else {
    echo 'No cars.';
}

edited Aug 19, 2011 at 10:40

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answered Aug 19, 2011 at 8:28

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Zombo · Accepted Answer · 2020-11-25 06:59:41Z

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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';
}

answered Nov 25, 2020 at 6:59

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Arno Visser Dec 5, 2024 at 8:26

I upvoted this answer because str_contains is a name that describes better what the function does than strpos and str_contains works perfect. I would like to add that I have tested both functions and in my environment str_contains is on average 3-4 times slower than strpos. It is all a matter of a few milliseconds but in situations that need performance I would use strpos.

Mikeys4u · Accepted Answer · 2013-08-26 01:33:00Z

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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...

answered Aug 26, 2013 at 1:33

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chris · Accepted Answer · 2011-08-19 08:32:45Z

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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..

answered Aug 19, 2011 at 8:32

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Richard Andrew Lee · Accepted Answer · 2013-06-21 23:40:19Z

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$url = 'http://' . $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] . $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];


if (!strpos($url,'car')) {
    echo 'Car exists.';
} else {
    echo 'No cars.';
}

This seems to work.

answered Jun 21, 2013 at 23:40

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Kobus Myburgh Over a year ago

Wrong way around here.

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