Search for a string or part of string in PHP

Question

I am doing a very small online store application in PHP. So I have an array of maps in PHP. I want to search for a string (a product) in the array. I looked at array_search

Answer 1

foreach($array as $item){
  if(strpos($item,"mysearchword")!== false){
    echo 'found';
  }
}

or you can use preg_match for more flexible search instead of strpos.