How to check if a string contains another string in PHP

Learn how to find out if a given string is in a different string in PHP in this quick and easy tutorial.

First, let’s define the two strings as follows:

$string = "this is a sample string!"
$search_term = "ring"

To find out if $string contains $search_term, perform the following:

if (strstr($search_term, $string))
{
	// search term was found
}

That’s all there is to it!