String contains any items in an array (case insensitive)

Question

How can i check if a $string contains any of the items expressed in an array?

$string = 'My nAmE is Tom.'; $array = array("name","tom"); if(contains($string,$array)) { // do something to say it contains } 

Any ideas?

Answer 1

I don't think there is a built-in function that will handle what you want. You could easily write a contains() function however:

function contains($str, array $arr) {     foreach($arr as $a) {         if (stripos($str,$a) !== false) return true;     }     return false; } 

Answer 2

is that what you wanted? i hope that code is compiling :)

$string = 'My nAmE is Tom.'; $array = array("name","tom"); if(0 < count(array_intersect(array_map('strtolower', explode(' ', $string)), $array))) {   //do sth }