hi, i have a question on how to check strings in PHP.
Situation:
when i'm at the url www.mydomain.com/fitness i want to show the image "personal_trainer.jpg"
see code:

<?php
$img = ""; // variable for the name of the image
switch ($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']) // requesting the url of the page i'm at
{
case "/fitness/":
$img = "personal_trainer.jpg";
break;
...
}
?>

That works fine. Now, i also want to show that same image for variations of this url, like
/fitness/?biz=24 or /fitness/?biz=1542

can anyone adjust the above code to make this happen?
thanks.

My bolding

1. Using Regular Expressions in PHP [PHP & MySQL Tutorials]
2. Look at the different string functions on the php.net site. Example: PHP: Strings - Manual
3. If you use external libraries like pear, there should be advanced string functions.

General search: regular expressions php
Isn't that simple conditional programming?

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Conditional programming. yes.
Simple. haha.not for me.

i suppose i should use the PHP function "stripos" to get the job done.

if anyone could just feed the solution right into my mouth..

I would generally stay away from case statements. While they have a purpose, anything that has to be explicitly stopped to prevent catastrophic failure is a bad idea. For this, I would use ereg() to check for the existence of your text. Since you are testing based on the beginning of the string you would use the regular expression "^/fitness/", so the code would be ereg('^/fitness', $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']) or in the full code:

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Although, Wige is correct that ereg would be a great method for doing this, if you aren't familiar with regular expressions, they tend to get tedious.

Keeping with Wige's if statement, why not just use something like strpos? It is easy to understand and easy to use and make updates to.

Like Wige says case statements have their purpose and are highly versatile, I believe regular expressions over complicate otherwise simple solutions.

in the above example, $haystack would be $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] and needle would be "/fitness/".

Please note the !== , the double equal sign is proper format for this specific call.
PHP: strpos - Manual

...and if you don't use them you won't get familiar with them, which IS tedious. I'm with wige on this one. I like regular expressions.

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