Question

So I am parsing twitter statuses using PHP and I want to write code that recognizes whether the person added a specific tag (#php). The code always searches for the #php tag and determines whether the person added the tag. I am only searching for the #php tag. How can I write such a code in PHP?

Answer 1

With preg_match():

$has_php = preg_match('/#php\b/i', $tweet);

It’s case-insensitive.