How to Get File Name from a Path In PHP

Posted By Bajarangi soft , Posted On 31-12-2020

Path is a required field. It specifies the path to check. Suffix is a optional field. It specifies a file extension. If the filename has this file extension, the file extension will not show.

Given full path, find file name in the path.

Input : path = /testweb/var/www/mywebsite/htdocs/home.php
Output : home.php

Input : path = /testweb/var/www/mywebsite/htdocs/abc.txt
Output : abc.txt

1. Using basename() :
Syntax:

$filename = basename(path, suffix);

Example:

<!--PHP code to get file name--> 
<!--from path name--> 
<?php 
$path = "/testweb/var/www/mywebsite/htdocs/home.php"; 

$file1 = basename($path); 
$file2 = basename($path, ".php"); 

//Show filename with file extension 
echo $file1 . "\n"; 

//Show filename without file extension 
echo $file2; 
?>

2.Using Pathinfo() :
Also we can use the function pathinfo() which creates an array with the parts of the path we want to use.
Syntax:

$filename = pathinfo(path);

when we want to access the file name we will use $filename[‘basename’].

Example 2:

<!--PHP code to get file name--> 
<!--from path name--> 
<?php 
    //Path of the file stored under pathinfo 
    $myFile = pathinfo('/usr/admin/config/test.php'); 

    //Show the file name 
    echo $myFile['basename'], "\n"; 
?>