[SOLVED] Wildcard operator in a php statement

[hansenb88]

Hi, I am very new to php and was wondering if there was a wildcard operator that could be included in an if statement similar to the % operator in a mySQL query. My if statement begins like this: if ($yourfield == 'restaurant' ||...  Is it possible to put in any character or command after the equal that would be like searching for 'rest%' when using mySQL? So that if the user spells a word wrong it will still execute that section of the code?

[trq]

There is no wildcard, the best you could do might be.....

[code]
<?php
  if (substr($yourfield,0,4) == 'rest') {
    // you typed rest*
  }
?>
[/code]

[hansenb88]

Thanks, not as efficient/easy as I had hoped, but worked perfectly.