Nitish Kumar
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How Can I Check if String Starts with Specific Word or Substring?
When looking for a word, character or substring inside another string, it is very common to check if the main string starts with given substring. Basically, every technique that worked when looking for a subtring inside another string will also work when we need to check if the substring only occurs at the beginning. However, […]
How Can I Check if String Contains a Specific Word or Substring?
Let’s say you have a string and you want to check if it contains a specific word, character or substring. There are a lot of things that you need to be aware of in order to do the check properly without making silly mistakes. For example, using != instead of !== during the check can […]
How Can I Calculate the Difference Between Two Dates in PHP?
Calculating the difference between two dates is not as easy as it sounds. There are a lot of things that can go wrong if you are not careful. For example, you have to take both leap years and daylight saving time into consideration. Simply converting two dates to a timestamp and subtracting the values is […]