Help Writing Conditional Statement

[EK]

I want to write a conditional statement like the following:

 

if ($value = "300x") {

 

however, I want this to work if x is changed to anything. So the conditional should work if the following is true:

 

if ($value = "300dog") {

 

or

 

if ($value = "300cat") {

 

How do I make it work as long as 300 is present regardless of what follows after. Thanks in advance!

[abhi_madhani]

hi,

 

try this solution

 

<?php

$paragraph = '300 had not been then, greece would not have been now';
$paragraph1 = 'if 300 had not been then, greece would not have been now';
$var1 = '300';

if (stripos($paragraph, $var1)=='0') {
echo 'it works';
}
else {
echo 'it doesnt';
}

?>

 

now try changing $paragraph with $paragraph1 in stripos.

 

Regards,

[EK]

Thanks for the help. Actually my $var1 needed to be a string, something like 300var

 

So I changed

 

if (stripos($paragraph, $var1)=='0') {

 

to

 

if (stripos($paragraph, $var1) !== false) {

 

and it worked perfectly! Thanks!