Matching string with shell-style wildcards (e.g., *)

Question

Is it possible to use a wildcard in an if statement?

My code:

* = wildcard

if ($admin =='*@some.text.here') {

}

$admin will be one of these:

• [email protected]
• [email protected]
• [email protected]

Answer 1

If you don't want to use regular expressions, fnmatch() might serve you well for this [limited] purpose. It matches strings using shell-like wildcards like you are expecting.

if (fnmatch('*@some.text.here', $admin)) {

}

Answer 2

You could just check that the string ends with the value you are expecting:

$suffix = '@some.text.here';

if (substr($admin, -strlen($suffix)) == $suffix) {
    // Do something
}