how to find a url in wordpress with php

Question

My url is www.mysite.com/properties/property-1-someplace

The /property-1-someplace/ is dynamically generated.

I'm writing an if statement that asks if the url is properties/property-1-someplace then execute code, but property-1-someplace is generated by wordpress and thus is constantly changing.

How can I target pages that are in the properties directory, but access the url afterwards if I don't know what that url is?

I can use the PHP variable $pagename but that does not address the properties part of the url.

If I could do <?php if (is_page( 'property/*.*' ) ): that would be perfect.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

EDIT:

Sorry I misunderstood your question, here is what you are probably looking for. Note that you may have to change the regular expression pattern to /^properties/ depending on the value of $pagename . If $pagename contains the whole URL (eg with domain name) then you will need to update the code with the domain name.

if( preg_match( '/^\/properties/', $pagename ) ) {
    // Do your stuff here.
}