Good alternative to eregi() in PHP

Question

I often find myself doing quick checks like this:

if (!eregi(\'.php\', $fileName)) {
    $filename .= \'.php\';
}

But as eregi() was deprec

Answer 1

Perhaps you should consider refactoring your code to do this instead:

if (substr($fileName, -4, 4) !== '.php')
    $fileName .= '.php';

As stated in other answers to this question, eregi('.php') will search for anything followed by 'php' ANYWERE in the file (not just at the end).