pathinfo

Description

pathinfo() returns an associative array containing information about path. The following array elements are returned: dirname, basename and extension.

You can specify which elements are returned with optional parameter options. It composes from PATHINFO_DIRNAME, PATHINFO_BASENAME and PATHINFO_EXTENSION. It defaults to return all elements.

Example 1. pathinfo() Example <?php $path_parts = pathinfo('/www/htdocs/index.html'); echo $path_parts['dirname'], "\n"; echo $path_parts['basename'], "\n"; echo $path_parts['extension'], "\n"; ?> Would produce: /www/htdocs index.html html

See also dirname(), basename(), parse_url() and realpath().