basename
Description
The basename of Filesystem for PHP returns trailing name component of path.
Syntax
basename ( string $path [, string $suffix ] ) : string
Parameters
path
A path. On Windows, both slash (/) and backslash (\) are used as directory separator character. In other environments, it is the forward slash (/).
suffix
If the name component ends in suffix this will also be cut off.
Return
Returns the base name of the given path.
Examples
1 · path
<? $path = "/directory/file.extension"; $return = basename($path); echo $return; ?>
file.extension
2 · suffix
<? $path = "/directory/file.extension"; $suffix = ".extension"; $return = basename($path, $suffix); echo $return; ?>
file
3
<?
echo basename("/directory/file.extension") . PHP_EOL;
echo basename("/directory/file") . PHP_EOL;
echo basename("/directory/..") . PHP_EOL;
echo basename("/directory/.") . PHP_EOL;
echo basename("/directory/") . PHP_EOL;
echo basename("/directory") . PHP_EOL;
echo basename("/..") . PHP_EOL;
echo basename("/.") . PHP_EOL;
echo basename("/") . PHP_EOL;
echo basename("..") . PHP_EOL;
echo basename(".");
?>file.extension file .. . directory directory .. . .. .
Links
Filesystem
- chgrp
- chmod
- chown
- clearstatcache
- copy
- dirname
- disk_free_space
- disk_total_space
- diskfreespace
- fclose
- feof
- fflush
- fgetc
- fgetcsv
- fgets
- file
- file_exists
- file_get_contents
- file_put_contents
- fileatime
- filectime
- filegroup
- fileinode
- filemtime
- fileowner
- fileperms
- filesize
- filetype
- flock
- fnmatch
- fopen
- fpassthru
- fputcsv
- fputs
- fread
- fscanf
- fseek
- fstat
- ftell
- ftruncate
- fwrite
- glob
- is_dir
- is_executable
- is_file
- is_link
- is_readable
- is_uploaded_file
- is_writable
- is_writeable
- lchgrp
- lchown
- link
- linkinfo
- lstat
- mkdir
- move_uploaded_file
- pathinfo
- pclose
- popen
- readfile
- readlink
- realpath
- realpath_cache_get
- realpath_cache_size
- rename
- rewind
- rmdir
- set_file_buffer
- stat
- symlink
- tempnam
- tmpfile
- touch
- umask
- unlink
