Find out file name from URL

thenetbrainbox

My PHP page receives a local URL from another page and I need to find out the file name on the end, eg.

Local URL = C:\Documents and Settings\Jonathon\My Documents\Report.doc
File name = Report.doc

How can I do this?
Also, how can I get rid of any spaces and un-capitalize any capital letters?

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Thanks,
Jonathon

jeremuck

the manual is located here: www.php.net/manual/en

one of your answers can be discovered by: doing this:

print_r($GLOBALS);

take a look at strings and their assosciated functions... especially around [man]trim[/man] and at server /script variables.

Traduim

I guess you could also retrieve it by using HTTP headers.
More exactly, I wolud try $SCRIPT_NAME

thenetbrainbox

I'm new to PHP so I didn't really understand most of that. Here's what I've managed so far:

$filename = strstr($url, '\');
$filenameremoveslash = explode('\', $filename);
$nameoffile = "$filenameremoveslash[1]";

I think the \ and ' can't be put next to each other so I tried using ASCII92 insted but it still doesn't seem to work.

jeremuck

try:

print $PHP_SELF

print $SCRIPT_NAME

or
$DOCUMENT_ROOT

or:

print_r($_SERVER);

thenetbrainbox

I still don't understand. Where do I specify the url?

thenetbrainbox

I don't think you understand what I’m trying to do; perhaps I haven't made myself clear enough. I have a string called $url which contains a local url (back slashes instead of forward slashes). I need to get rid of the path so all I’m left with is the file name at the end of the path.

EG:
If the url is "C:\Documents and Settings\Jonathon\My Documents\Report.doc" I need to shorten this down to just the file name - "Report.doc". I then want to make this small case - "report.doc" and then remove any spaces.

thenetbrainbox

After alot of seach on the Interent I finaly found what I was looking for. You simply put '_name' on the end of the string, so:

$url = C:\Documents and Settings\Jonathon\My Documents\Report.doc

$url_name = Report.doc

Simple.

Now can anyone tell me how to get rid of any spaces in the string and convert all letters to lower case?

michael

trim()
strtolower()

ednark

here is what you are looking for

[man]base_name[/man]

thenetbrainbox

Thanks, that's what i've been looking for but trim() just removes spaces from the start and end (I think) how can I remove spaces from anywhere in the string?

tomhath

RTFM dude, every question you've asked is clearly documented:

http://www.phpbuilder.com/manual/function.ereg-replace.php

thenetbrainbox

Thank you.