[SOLVED] Help With IF Statement

[refiking]

I want to run a query on the db based on the first letter of the event_id.  How can I use an if statement based on the first letter of the event_id?  Here is the code that I have so far:

$event_id = $_GET['event'];
$s1 = "INSERT INTO Pending(user_id,event_id)VALUES('$user','$event_id')";
mysql_query($s1) or die;
//IF ($event_id starts with T) {
//blah blah blah

[KrisNz]

You can treate strings as arrays so

if ($event_id[0] == 'T') { ....

[refiking]

Couple Questions....

 

1) Does it matter that I already have the event_id from the $_GET function?

 

2) Does it matter that the event_id is more than just the letter T?

 

Thanks for your explanation in advance!

[KrisNz]

1) No.

 

2) Yes, in that case you'll need to use strpos()

 

e.g

if (strpos($event_id,"foo") === 0 ) { //does event id begin with "foo"...