Checking if String Starts With a Character or Substring

In this episode, we’ll take on the challenge of how to test a string to see if it starts with “http://”. You’ll discover there are multiple ways to do this check. Then we’ll create a utility function called starts_with and put that into our new Site Utilities plugin.

Regex is not needed here. In this episode, I show you two different approaches to checking if a string begins with a substring:

• Check its position using strpos
• Check the beginning of the string to a specific length using mb_substr and mb_strlen

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