How to get only filename from a string??

Anon

I use input in form

and variable $form_file looks (after pressing submit) like

C:\Przemek\Archiwum\nic\picture.gif

how from this string get only filename (in this case:

picture.gif

how to get everything that is right from \

THX a lot

Anon

Try this,

<?php
Function GetFilename ($fullstr)
{
While (stristr($fullstr, '\') != FALSE)
{
$fullstr = stristr($fullstr, '\');
$fullstr = substr(fullstr, 1);

}
return $fullstr;
}

Paste this code anywhere in the page, above where you want to use it,

Then to call it use;

<?php

$Filename = GetFilename("C:\Przemek\Archiwum\nic\picture.gif");
?>

This should get you a file name

Anon

🙁(

Anon

C:\Przemek\Archiwum\indesignz.zip

I tried to change your code into:

function get_filename ($fullstr)
{
while (stristr($fullstr, '\') != FALSE)
{
$fullstr = stristr($fullstr, '\');
$fullstr = substr(fullstr, 1);
}
return $fullstr;

but it doesn't work either
🙁

Anon

ok
function should look like this:

function get_filename ($fullstr)
{
while (stristr($fullstr, '\') != FALSE)
{
$fullstr = stristr($fullstr, '\');
$fullstr = substr($fullstr, 1);
}
return $fullstr;
} //function get_filename

onilio

I did that months ago... I don´t remember well what I did, but I think I used a function named BASENAME

EX:

$file = "C:\dir\file.exe";
$only_file = basename($file);

$only_file will be set to "file.exe"

This function have another parameter suffix, if you want to have the suffix off, like this:

$file = "C:\dir\file.exe";
$only_file = basename($file, ".exe");

$only_file will be set to "file"

Return me if this works.

reagent

If you have PHP 4.0.3 or greater use
pathinfo()