PHP forward slash match

Question

How I can check if some string contains forward slash in PHP?

Answer 1

Check for occurences with strpos()

if (strpos($string, '/') !== FALSE) // Found

Returns the position as an integer. If needle is not found, strpos() will return boolean FALSE.

This is faster than a regular expression, and most other methods, because it stops checking at the first occurrence.

Answer 2

It is very simple:

preg_match ('~/~', $string);