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, Aug 19 '11 at 08:31
You might find [`s($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'])->contains('car')`](https://github.com/delight-im/PHP-Str/blob/8fd0c608d5496d43adaa899642c1cce047e076dc/src/Str.php#L93) helpful, as found in [this standalone library](https://github.com/delight-im/PHP-Str). — caw, Jul 27 '16 at 00:41
What if the url contains the word "scared"? Should that print "car is exist"? If not, most of the answers here are wrong. — doug65536, Oct 14 '16 at 07:10

score 260 · Answer 1 · edited Feb 26 '15 at 21:17

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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 '15 at 21:17

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answered Aug 19 '11 at 08:33

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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! – Javacadabra Nov 29 '16 at 13:06
`$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? – Si8 Feb 21 '18 at 16:51
From PHP 8.0 onwards, you can also use `str_contains($url, 'car')`: https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.str-contains.php – Filnor May 10 '22 at 07:58

score 91 · Answer 2 · edited Mar 30 '15 at 09:05

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I think the easiest way is:

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

edited Mar 30 '15 at 09:05

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answered Mar 05 '15 at 10:11

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Perfect... I needed to match http://example.com/events/pagename to find any urls with "events" in them and it works! – Tingo Feb 16 '18 at 02:19
I've used this several times in the past week on 4 different projects. Simple. Thanks. – Pegues Nov 02 '18 at 01:47
This does not test the full url; only the path. It will not test against the scheme, domain, port, query parameters, or fragment. – kloddant Aug 02 '19 at 15:50

score 25 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 19 '11 at 08:27

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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 '11 at 08:27

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score 16 · Answer 4 · answered Aug 19 '11 at 08:27

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

answered Aug 19 '11 at 08:27

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Mars · Answer 5 · 2020-09-28T19:44:11.177

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

score 11 · Answer 6 · answered Aug 18 '18 at 08:42

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worked for me with php

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

answered Aug 18 '18 at 08:42

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This is essentially identical to [this three your old answer](https://stackoverflow.com/a/28875202/466862). Why bother posting an answer like that? – Mark Rotteveel Aug 18 '18 at 09:42

score 4 · Answer 7 · answered Jan 25 '15 at 13:21

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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 '15 at 13:21

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score 3 · Answer 8 · edited Aug 19 '11 at 10:40

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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 '11 at 10:40

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answered Aug 19 '11 at 08:28

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score 2 · Answer 9 · answered Aug 26 '13 at 01:33

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...

score 2 · Answer 10 · answered Nov 25 '20 at 06:59

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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 '20 at 06:59

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score 1 · Answer 11 · answered Jun 21 '13 at 23:40

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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 '13 at 23:40

Richard Andrew Lee

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Wrong way around here. – Kobus Myburgh Aug 08 '19 at 09:11

score 1 · Answer 12 · answered Aug 19 '11 at 08:32

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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 '11 at 08:32

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