pathinfo

Description

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

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().