PHP – Check if a string ends with a substring

In this post we will be creating a PHP script that will check if an existing string ends with a certain character or word. To do this we will be using the ‘str_ends_with()’ function which checks if a string ends with a given substring.

Our string for the example will be ‘hello world’, see the snippet of code below where we check if our string ends with the letter ‘d’.

<?php
	$string = 'hello world';

	if (str_ends_with($string, 'd')) {
		echo "String ends with 'd'\n";
	}
?>

The above would return ‘String ends with ‘d’‘ as output.

See the snippet of code below where we check if our string ends with the word ‘world’.

<?php
	$string = 'hello world';

	if (str_ends_with($string, 'world')) {
		echo "String ends with 'world'\n";
	}
?>

The above would return ‘String ends with ‘world’‘ as output.