Ends with

Returns true or fales depending on whether the text ends with the given string or not.

/**
 * EndsWith
 * Tests whether a text ends with the given
 * string or not.
 *
 * @param     string
 * @param     string
 * @return    bool
 */
function EndsWith($Haystack, $Needle){
    // Recommended version, using strpos
    return strrpos($Haystack, $Needle) === strlen($Haystack)-strlen($Needle);
}
 
// Another way, using substr
function EndsWith_Old($Haystack, $Needle){
    return substr($Haystack, strlen($Needle)*-1) == $Needle;
}

Snippet information

Author:
Jonas John

License:
Public Domain

Language:
PHP

Created:
03/28/2006

Updated:
09/25/2007

Tags:
string functions, helpers

Related links:
- The opposite: Starts with

$ExampleText = '[snippet]';
 
if (EndsWith($ExampleText, ']')){
    print 'The string ends with -> ] <-';
}
 
 
$ExampleText = 'Evil monkey';
 
if (!EndsWith($ExampleText, 'evil')){
    print 'The text does not start with evil!';
}

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Older comments:

jakob September 19, 2009 at 12:58

my proposal:
function endsWith($Haystack, $Needle){
return (substr($Haystack, strlen($Needle)*(-1)) == $Needle);
}

jakob September 19, 2009 at 12:55

Does not work for string, that have the same substring not only at the end. for example this returns false:
EndsWith('//TEST//', '//');

Christiaan August 30, 2009 at 13:24

The following should be a bit faster when you have a lot of negative hits (saves you 2x strlen() calls when not necessary).

function endsWith($h, $n){
return (false !== ($i = strrpos($h, $n)) &&
$i === strlen($h) - strlen($n));
}