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php at lanar dot com dot au
26-Apr-2006 04:19


If the file does not have an extension, the 'extension' key in the returned array does not exist. (In the windows environment at least).

e.g.

\php\php -r "print_r(pathinfo('/path/file'));"

Array

(

    [dirname] => /path

    [basename] => file

)

Darren
30-Nov-2005 10:37


Basename without extension, the true 'base' file name...



<?php



$path_parts['basename_we'] = substr($path_parts['basename'], 0, -(strlen($path_parts['extension']) + ($path_parts['extension'] == '' ? 0 : 1)));



?>

cochise_chiracahua at hotmail.com
26-Nov-2005 03:55


Sometimes, it's interessant to get the basename without extension.

So, I appended a new entry 'basenameWE' (Basename Without Extension) to the returned array.



<?php



// pathinfo improved

function pathinfo_im($path) {

    

    $tab = pathinfo($path);

    

    $tab["basenameWE"] = substr($tab["basename"],0

    ,strlen($tab["basename"]) - (strlen($tab["extension"]) + 1) );

    

    return $tab;

}



$my_path = "/var/www/html/example.html";



echo "<pre>\n";

print_r( pathinfo_im($my_path) );

echo "</pre>\n";



?>



Out :



Array

(

    [dirname] => /var/www/html

    [basename] => example.html

    [extension] => html

    [basenameWE] => example

)

sgermain at icexnetworks dot com
09-Jul-2005 02:24


It is true that if you put a directory into pathinfo, usually the extension is empty. But, if the directory name is /www/example.com/ for example, you will have the following output:



Array

(

    [dirname] => /www

    [basename] => example.com

    [extension] => com

)



So, it is the same as a file.

n0dalus
08-Feb-2005 05:47


If a file has more than one 'file extension' (seperated by periods), the last one will be returned.

For example:

<?php

$pathinfo = pathinfo('/dir/test.tar.gz');

echo 'Extension: '.$pathinfo['extension'];

?>

will produce:

Extension: gz



and not tar.gz

03-Dec-2004 08:39


If you want only the file extension, use this:

<?php

$extension = substr(strrchr($filename, "."), 1);

?>

This is many times faster than using pathinfo() and getting the value from array.

rob at webdimension dot co dot uk
04-Oct-2004 09:48


Further to my previous post.



This affects servers that run PHP as a cgi module



If you have your own server:

You can use the AcceptPathInfo directive to force the core handler to accept requests with PATH_INFO and thereby restore the ability to use PATH_INFO in server-side includes.



Further information:

http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/core.html#acceptpathinfo

rob at webdimension dot co dot uk
04-Oct-2004 05:56


Apache Upgrade from 1.3 to 2.0

The handling of PATH_INFO (trailing path information after the true filename) has changed for some modules. Modules that were previously implemented as a handler but are now implemented as a filter may no longer accept requests with PATH_INFO



Use:

$path_info = $ENV{'FILEPATH_INFO'} || $ENV{'PATH_INFO'};

junk at plaino dot com
19-Aug-2004 09:41


Convert a URL to the local file path and vice versa, convert a local file path to a URL.



// this sets the sytem / or \ :

strstr( PHP_OS, "WIN") ? $slash = "\\" : $slash = "/";



// This is the location of the php file that contains this

// function. Usually this request is made to files/folders 

// down the directory structure, so the php file that 

// contains these functions is a good "where am i" 

// reference point:

$WIMPY_BASE['path']['physical'] = getcwd();

$WIMPY_BASE['path']['www'] = "http://".$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'];



function url2filepath($theURL){

    global $WIMPY_BASE, $slash;

    $AtheFile = explode ("/", $theURL);

    $theFileName = array_pop($AtheFile);

    $AwimpyPathWWW = explode ("/", $WIMPY_BASE['path']['www']);

    $AtheFilePath = array_values (array_diff ($AtheFile, $AwimpyPathWWW));

    if($AtheFilePath){

        $theFilePath = $slash.implode($slash, $AtheFilePath).$slash.$theFileName;

    } else {

        $theFilePath = implode($slash, $AtheFilePath).$slash.$theFileName;

    }

    return ($WIMPY_BASE['path']['physical'].$theFilePath);

}



function filepath2url ($theFilepath){

    global $WIMPY_BASE, $slash;

    $AtheFile = explode ($slash, $theFilepath);

    $theFileName = array_pop($AtheFile);

    $AwimpyPathFILE = explode ($slash, $WIMPY_BASE['path']['physical']);

    $AtheFilePath = array_values (array_diff ($AtheFile, $AwimpyPathFILE));

    $thFileURL = implode("/", $AtheFilePath)."/".$theFileName;

    return ($WIMPY_BASE['path']['www']."$thFileURL");

}

albertof at deltasoft dot com dot ar
29-May-2002 04:10


This code is to work in index.php/var/var



if(isset($PATH_INFO)) {

      $viewcode = explode('/', $PATH_INFO);

        $num = count($viewcode);

        if($num % 2 == 0) {

            $viewcode[] = '';

            $num++;

        }

        for($i = 1; $i < $num; $i += 2) {



            $$viewcode[$i] = $viewcode[$i+1];



          }

    }

m-symons at home dot com
25-Aug-2001 10:01


And, of course, to account for the problem noted in the first post whereby calling a directory, not a file, messes with the output of pathinfo(), you can include the following test:





if($pathinfo[extension] == "") {





$deep++;





}





Ooops...sorry for missing that.

m-symons at home dot com
25-Aug-2001 09:54


Here's a neat wee function to grab the relative path to root (especially useful if you're using mock-directories to pass variables into scripts with mod_rewrite).  The function simply iterates through every occurence of "/" within the REQUEST_URI environment variable, appending "../" to the output for every instance:





<?php





function path_to_root($path) {





    $pathinfo = pathinfo($path);


    


    $deep = substr_count($pathinfo[dirname], "/");


    


    $path_to_root = "./";


    


    for($i = 1; $i <= $deep; $i++) {


    


        $path_to_root .= "../";


        


    }


    


    return $path_to_root;


}





path_to_root($REQUEST_URI);





?>

mikep at oeone dot com
23-Aug-2001 01:27


If you run this on a directory, basename is the last directory in the path, dirname is the path before the final directory and extension is empty.

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