[Resolved] trimming directory name from getcwd()

ajberry

Title pretty much says it all. I want to take the result from the getcwd() function and trim it to just the last directory.

For example:

getcwd() returns C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache\htdocs\filename.php

I want to trim it to just htdocs. Below is the code I have thus far, which does nothing but return the long string value.

<?php

$currDir = getcwd();
echo $currDir;

Thanks..

ajberry

rheroux

<?php

$dir = getcwd();

preg_match("#^.*(\\\\\\\\|/)(.*(\\\\\\\\|/).*$)#",$dir,$matches);

echo $matches[2];

?>

ajberry

Thanks! That put me on the right track. I ended up using the file path and putting it through preg_match. I pushed that result through dirname, and we had a winner.

Thanks,

ajberry

Here is the final code I used:

<?php

// GET NAME OF FILE
$script = $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];
echo "Script Name: " . $script . " ";

// GET FULL PATH TO FILE
$dir = getcwd();
echo "Full Dir Path: " . $dir . " ";

// SPLIT STRING INTO ARRAY
preg_match("#^{.(\\|/)(.(\\|/).*$)#",$script,$matches);}

// GET CURRENT DIRECTORY
echo "Current Directory: " . dirname($matches[2]) . " ";

// URL PARTS
print_r($matches);

Moonglobe

why bother with such a long regex when dirname(getcwd()) would do the same thing?

ajberry

Moonglobe:

That did not work for me. I probably need to be more specific about what I am asking:

getcwd() returns the following string:

C:\Program Files\Apache\htdocs\adve

I want to extract just the last directory, in this case the following string:

adve

Using dirname(getcwd()) on the first string I get the following:

C:\Program Files\Apache\htdocs

I would much rather use something shorter, but this has been the easiest solution yet.

ajberry

Moonglobe

o well.... replace dirname with basename 🙂