storing the name of a file as a variable

garethj

Hi,

is there a way to grab the name of the file that has been clicked by a user, strip the extension [.php] and then use that name as a variable?

e.g. the page would be called "london.php" i'd like to strip the ".php" and then use the "london" as a variable to select from a mysql db. like this:

$query = "SELECT * FROM table where area like '%london%' && state = 'uk' order by url desc";

so the "london" could be an echo statment like

$query = "SELECT * FROM table where area like '%<? echo $filename; ?>%' && state = 'uk' order by url desc";

thanks

stolzyboy

you could do something like this on the page the user clicked on

$variable = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
$variable = str_replace(".php", "", $variable);
$variable = str_replace("/", "", $variable);
echo $variable; //this should have the name of the file you are at without the extension

garethj

that worked, but i'm the $variable is also capturing the path:

the path is Citylists/ak/anchorage.php
and it's giving me "Citylistsakanchorage" instead of just "anchorage"

any idea how to remove the path and just keep the actual file?

thanks again,

mahers

Try

$p = "/real/long/path/to/file.php";
$var = basename($p,".php");

echo $var;

stolzyboy

<?
$variable = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
$variable = str_replace(".php", "", $variable);
$variable = str_replace("Citylists/ak/", "", $variable);
echo $variable; //this should have the name of the file you are at without the extension
?>

of course this would only work if you are always in the Citylists/ak folder