Check if haystack starts with needle. Returns the remaining part of the haystack, if needle was found. Returns false if is not found.

Return value

Bool|String Haystack without the needle, FALSE if not found

Arguments

$needle string

String to search for

$haystack string

String to search from

Full documentation

Set param if $functionCall starts with 'get'.

if ( $paramName = startsWith('get',$functionCall) ){
    return $this->getParam($paramName);      
}

This function a shorthand for:

if ( strpos($haystack,'get') === 0 ){
    $paramName = substr($haystack , strlen($needle) );
}
else {
    $paramName = false;
}