PHP Laravel - How to Check if a String Contains a Specific Word?

This example will help you to check if a string contains any substring in laravel. you can check if url contains string in laravel using Str::contains(). i will give you simple example of laravel str contains case insensitive.

you can check if string contains a specific word in laravel 6, laravel 7, laravel 8, laravel 9 and laravel 10.

Laravel has a Str helper function. Str class has contains() method that will provide to check string contains in laravel application. contains() take a two argument one should be string and another will be string or array.

I will give you both example so you can easily use in your controller method. so let's see bellow both example will help you to use.

With Single Word Contains:

use Illuminate\Support\Str;
   
$myString = 'This is from itsolutionstuff.com website.';
     
$contains = Str::contains($myString, 'itsolutionstuff.com');
     
// true

With Multiple Words Contains:

use Illuminate\Support\Str;
  
$myString = 'This is from itsolutionstuff.com website.';
     
$contains = Str::contains($myString, ['itsolutionstuff.com', 'website']);
     
// true

You can use easily with your controller method.

I hope it can help you....