做得更快：

function startsWith($haystack,$needle) {
    if($needle==="") return true;
    if($haystack[0]<>$needle[0]) return false; // ------------------------- speed boost!
    return (0===substr_compare($haystack,$needle,0,strlen($needle)));
}

这一行比较字符串的第一个字符，可以使false case会立即返回，因此会进行许多比较速度快得多（测量时快7倍）。在真实的情况下，你几乎没有为这条线付出任何性能代价，所以我认为这是值得的。（此外，在实践中，当您为一个特定的起始块测试多个字符串时，大多数比较都会失败，因为在典型的情况下，您正在寻找一些东西。）

注意：@Tino下面评论中的bug已经修复

对于字符串与整数

如果要强制字符串比较（即，期望startsWith（“1234”，12）为true），则需要一些类型转换：

function startsWith($haystack,$needle) {
    if($needle==="") return true;
    $haystack = (string)$haystack;
    $needle   = (string)$needle;
    if($haystack[0]<>$needle[0]) return false; // ------------------------- speed boost!
    return (0===substr_compare($haystack,$needle,0,strlen($needle)));
}

我不认为这是必要的，但这是一个有趣的边缘案例，导致了诸如“布尔值真以t开头吗？”这样的问题，所以你要做出决定，但要确保你的决定是好的。

专注于startswith，如果您确定字符串不为空，那么在比较之前，在第一个字符、strlen等上添加一个测试会加快速度：

function startswith5b($haystack, $needle) {
    return ($haystack{0}==$needle{0})?strncmp($haystack, $needle, strlen($needle)) === 0:FALSE;
}

不知怎么的，速度快了（20%-30%）。添加另一个字符测试，如$haystack｛1｝==$needle｛1}，似乎并不能加快速度，甚至可能会减慢速度。

==似乎比==条件运算符（a）？b： c似乎比如果（a）b更快；否则c；

对于那些问“为什么不使用strpos？”并称其他解决方案为“不必要的工作”的人

strpos速度很快，但它不是这项工作的正确工具。

为了理解，这里有一个小模拟作为示例：

Search a12345678c inside bcdefga12345678xbbbbb.....bbbbba12345678c

电脑在里面做什么？

    With strccmp, etc...

    is a===b? NO
    return false



    With strpos

    is a===b? NO -- iterating in haysack
    is a===c? NO
    is a===d? NO
    ....
    is a===g? NO
    is a===g? NO
    is a===a? YES
    is 1===1? YES -- iterating in needle
    is 2===3? YES
    is 4===4? YES
    ....
    is 8===8? YES
    is c===x? NO: oh God,
    is a===1? NO -- iterating in haysack again
    is a===2? NO
    is a===3? NO
    is a===4? NO
    ....
    is a===x? NO
    is a===b? NO
    is a===b? NO
    is a===b? NO
    is a===b? NO
    is a===b? NO
    is a===b? NO
    is a===b? NO
    ...
    ... may many times...
    ...
    is a===b? NO
    is a===a? YES -- iterating in needle again
    is 1===1? YES
    is 2===3? YES
    is 4===4? YES
    is 8===8? YES
    is c===c? YES YES YES I have found the same string! yay!
    was it at position 0? NOPE
    What you mean NO? So the string I found is useless? YEs.
    Damn.
    return false

假设strlen不迭代整个字符串（但即使在这种情况下），这一点都不方便。

这可能奏效

function startsWith($haystack, $needle) {
     return substr($haystack, 0, strlen($needle)) == $needle;
}

资料来源：https://stackoverflow.com/a/4419658

我希望以下答案既有效又简单：

$content = "The main string to search";
$search = "T";
//For compare the begining string with case insensitive. 
if(stripos($content, $search) === 0) echo 'Yes';
else echo 'No';

//For compare the begining string with case sensitive. 
if(strpos($content, $search) === 0) echo 'Yes';
else echo 'No';

//For compare the ending string with case insensitive. 
if(stripos(strrev($content), strrev($search)) === 0) echo 'Yes';
else echo 'No';

//For compare the ending string with case sensitive. 
if(strpos(strrev($content), strrev($search)) === 0) echo 'Yes';
else echo 'No';

无副本，无实习循环：

function startsWith(string $string, string $start): bool
{
    return strrpos($string, $start, - strlen($string)) !== false;
}

function endsWith(string $string, string $end): bool
{
    return ($offset = strlen($string) - strlen($end)) >= 0 
    && strpos($string, $end, $offset) !== false;
}

Fastest endsWith（）解决方案：

# Checks if a string ends in a string
function endsWith($haystack, $needle) {
    return substr($haystack,-strlen($needle))===$needle;
}

基准：

# This answer
function endsWith($haystack, $needle) {
    return substr($haystack,-strlen($needle))===$needle;
}

# Accepted answer
function endsWith2($haystack, $needle) {
    $length = strlen($needle);

    return $length === 0 ||
    (substr($haystack, -$length) === $needle);
}

# Second most-voted answer
function endsWith3($haystack, $needle) {
    // search forward starting from end minus needle length characters
    if ($needle === '') {
        return true;
    }
    $diff = \strlen($haystack) - \strlen($needle);
    return $diff >= 0 && strpos($haystack, $needle, $diff) !== false;
}

# Regex answer
function endsWith4($haystack, $needle) {
    return preg_match('/' . preg_quote($needle, '/') . '$/', $haystack);
}

function timedebug() {
    $test = 10000000;

    $time1 = microtime(true);
    for ($i=0; $i < $test; $i++) {
        $tmp = endsWith('TestShortcode', 'Shortcode');
    }
    $time2 = microtime(true);
    $result1 = $time2 - $time1;

    for ($i=0; $i < $test; $i++) {
        $tmp = endsWith2('TestShortcode', 'Shortcode');
    }
    $time3 = microtime(true);
    $result2 = $time3 - $time2;

    for ($i=0; $i < $test; $i++) {
        $tmp = endsWith3('TestShortcode', 'Shortcode');
    }
    $time4 = microtime(true);
    $result3 = $time4 - $time3;

    for ($i=0; $i < $test; $i++) {
        $tmp = endsWith4('TestShortcode', 'Shortcode');
    }
    $time5 = microtime(true);
    $result4 = $time5 - $time4;

    echo $test.'x endsWith: '.$result1.' seconds # This answer<br>';
    echo $test.'x endsWith2: '.$result4.' seconds # Accepted answer<br>';
    echo $test.'x endsWith3: '.$result2.' seconds # Second most voted answer<br>';
    echo $test.'x endsWith4: '.$result3.' seconds # Regex answer<br>';
    exit;
}
timedebug();

基准结果：

10000000x endsWith: 1.5760900974274 seconds # This answer
10000000x endsWith2: 3.7102129459381 seconds # Accepted answer
10000000x endsWith3: 1.8731069564819 seconds # Second most voted answer
10000000x endsWith4: 2.1521229743958 seconds # Regex answer