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pathinfo

(PHP 4 >= 4.0.3, PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)

pathinfo — Returns information about a file path

Description

pathinfo(string $path, int $flags = PATHINFO_ALL): array|string

pathinfo() returns information about path: either an associative array or a string, depending on flags.

Note:

For information on retrieving the current path info, read the section on predefined reserved variables.

Note:

pathinfo() operates naively on the input string, and is not aware of the actual filesystem, or path components such as "..".

Note:

On Windows systems only, the \ character will be interpreted as a directory separator. On other systems it will be treated like any other character.

Caution

pathinfo() is locale aware, so for it to parse a path containing multibyte characters correctly, the matching locale must be set using the setlocale() function.

Parameters

path

The path to be parsed.

flags

If present, specifies a specific element to be returned; one of PATHINFO_DIRNAME, PATHINFO_BASENAME, PATHINFO_EXTENSION or PATHINFO_FILENAME.

If flags is not specified, returns all available elements.

Return Values

If the flags parameter is not passed, an associative array containing the following elements is returned: dirname, basename, extension (if any), and filename.

Note:

If the path has more than one extension, PATHINFO_EXTENSION returns only the last one and PATHINFO_FILENAME only strips the last one. (see first example below).

Note:

If the path does not have an extension, no extension element will be returned (see second example below).

Note:

If the basename of the path starts with a dot, the following characters are interpreted as extension, and the filename is empty (see third example below).

If flags is present, returns a string containing the requested element.

Examples

Example #1 pathinfo() Example

<?php
$path_parts = pathinfo('/www/htdocs/inc/lib.inc.php');

echo $path_parts['dirname'], "\n";
echo $path_parts['basename'], "\n";
echo $path_parts['extension'], "\n";
echo $path_parts['filename'], "\n";
?>

The above example will output:

/www/htdocs/inc
lib.inc.php
php
lib.inc

Example #2 pathinfo() example showing difference between null and no extension

<?php
$path_parts = pathinfo('/path/emptyextension.');
var_dump($path_parts['extension']);

$path_parts = pathinfo('/path/noextension');
var_dump($path_parts['extension']);
?>

The above example will output something similar to:

string(0) ""

Notice: Undefined index: extension in test.php on line 6
NULL

Example #3 pathinfo() example for a dot-file

<?php
print_r(pathinfo('/some/path/.test'));
?>

The above example will output something similar to:

Array
(
    [dirname] => /some/path
    [basename] => .test
    [extension] => test
    [filename] =>
)

Example #4 pathinfo() example with array dereferencing

The flags parameter is not a bitmask. Only a single value may be provided. To select only a limited set of parsed values, use array destructuring like so:

<?php
['basename' => $basename, 'dirname' => $dirname] = pathinfo('/www/htdocs/inc/lib.inc.php');

var_dump($basename, $dirname);
?>

The above example will output something similar to:

string(11) "lib.inc.php"
string(15) "/www/htdocs/inc"

pathinfo

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