If url contains X then ..

Right now, my code checks the url for x, so if url == to x then...

So the condition is true if the url is Digitalpoint.com/x/ but it breaks if the url is digitalpoint.com/x/y

So how do I check if url contains x?

Update:
Here's the code

<?php if ($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']=='/pokemon/' ) {echo 'class="selected"';} ?>

PHP:

 

post the part of the code so i can suggest what method to use.

 

Simple, run this function on your variable that checks the first character as "x"

$X = substr($YourXVariable, 0, 1);

if($X == "x")
{
     echo "X is there baby s*@t yeah!;
}
else {
     echo "Nope";
}

PHP:

 

Not sure if this would work that well, but here is my current code.

<?php if ($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']=='/pokemon/' ) {echo 'class="selected"';} ?>

PHP:

 

<?php if (stripos($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'],'/pokemon/') !== false) {echo 'class="selected"';} ?>

PHP:

 

AnonymousUser's code is wrong. It should be programmed like this:

(Assuming your URL is $url)

$url = "Your URL";
$search = "What you're searching for";
$count = 1; //Number of forward slashes before the code "breaks"

if (strstr($url, $search)) {
  $split = split($url, "//");
  if (count($split) < $count) {
    echo 'Success';
  }
}

PHP:

The above code is compatible with PHP 4+.

 

Thanks! that worked flawlessly!

 

if(preg_match('/\/pokemon\//',$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'])) echo 'class="selected"';

PHP:

Could use this too

 

My code isnt "wrong", I posted it before he posted his code, He re-edited his main post, So I had nothing to "work" on, which was why I told him to apply is to his $XVariable, which he doesnt have, anyway some1s posted the right code so its all good

 

Nice work! This does work flawlessly! But I have a question about it - what's the "!== false" do? Does that mean that the function "stripos" does the "echo" if it CANNOT find the URL specified, in this case "/pokemon", so the !false part reverses that? I'm learning PHP so I probably have got it wrong - but I can't understand what it's for!
Thanks!
James

 

Because of PHP's loose variable interchangeability when stripos returns that the position of the string is found at character 0 (ie it returns 0) then this can be interpreted as false with just == or !=. What === or !== does is check the type of the value as well as the actual value, therefore eliminating 0 being equivalent to 0, and you being able to determine if a string is at position 0 or not in the string at all

 

In other way it can also be said as if the URL is equal to $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'],'/pokemon/ then it prints class='selected'

 

Not quite, it just sees if it can match a portion of the first string with the second one (without case sensitivity). If you were just testing if one is equivalent to the other you would just use == in an if test