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atholon

Hi - I am making an upload script and I would like to know how I can cut the extension of the file like "exe" off of the file name and turn it into a variable.

bailo81

I think the explode function is what you need

intenz

For example like this...

<?php
$foo = 'some.stupid.name.exe';
$variable = substr( $foo, strrpos( $foo, '.' ) + 1 ); // Now stored in $variable
echo $variable; // Output: exe
?>

Or like this...

<?php
$foo = 'some.stupid.name.exe';
$parts = explode( '.', $foo );
$variable = $parts[count( $parts ) - 1]; // Now stored in $variable
echo $variable; // Output: exe
?>

atholon

Ok because what I am doing is renaming the files according to the tutorial and file being uploaded but it seems like when I try something like the first example, it doesn't add the extension on the end so it saves it as "file"

intenz

Then try...

$foo = $foo . '.' . $variable;

😛

atholon

Hahahaha I fixed it.

It was a problem with my array.

I was using:

       $ext=substr(strrchr($name, "."), 1);