Question

I have the following JS:

if(window.location.href.indexOf("search.php") != -1 
    || window.location.href.indexOf("list.php") != -1
    || window.location.href.indexOf("view.php") != -1
    || window.location.href.indexOf("contact.php") != -1) {

But want to convert it to PHP. What is the equivalent of indexOf in PHP or the best way to do this in PHP.

I don’t understand the strpos examples people are linking to below. Perhaps an example more in line with what I have done in JS?

Answer 1

Although your JavaScript code is using indexOf(), PHP actually has a better way of handling what you want to achieve.

You simply have to check the script name in your URL, then perform an action(s) based on it.

In my opinion, PHP switch statement is better than if statements in combination with PHP strpos() function.

Below is an illustration of how you can achieve that using a PHP switch statement:

switch(basename($_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'])) {
  case 'search.php':
    // Script to run for search.php
    break;
  case 'list.php':
    // Script to run for list.php
    break;
  case 'view.php':
    // Script to run for view.php
    break;
  case 'contact.php':
    break;
  default:
      // Perform code on anything except the above cases.
    break;
}