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<h1 class="refname">SplFileInfo::__toString</h1>
<p class="verinfo">(PHP 5 >= 5.1.2)</p><p class="refpurpose"><span class="refname">SplFileInfo::__toString</span> — <span class="dc-title">Returns the path to the file as a string</span></p>
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<h3 class="title">Description</h3>
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<span class="modifier">public</span> <span class="type"><span class="type void">void</span></span> <span class="methodname"><strong>SplFileInfo::__toString</strong></span>
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This method will return the file name of the referenced file.
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<h3 class="title">Parameters</h3>
<p class="para">This function has no parameters.</p>
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<h3 class="title">Return Values</h3>
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Returns the path to the file.
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<p><strong>Example #1 <span class="function"><strong>SplFileInfo::__toString()</strong></span> example</strong></p>
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<div class="phpcode"><code><span style="color: #000000">
<span style="color: #0000BB"><?php<br />$info </span><span style="color: #007700">= new </span><span style="color: #0000BB">SplFileInfo</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'foo'</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">var_dump</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$info</span><span style="color: #007700">-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">__toString</span><span style="color: #007700">());<br />echo </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$info</span><span style="color: #007700">.</span><span style="color: #0000BB">PHP_EOL</span><span style="color: #007700">;<br /><br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$info </span><span style="color: #007700">= new </span><span style="color: #0000BB">SplFileInfo</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'/usr/bin/php'</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">var_dump</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$info</span><span style="color: #007700">-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">__toString</span><span style="color: #007700">());<br />echo </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$info</span><span style="color: #007700">.</span><span style="color: #0000BB">PHP_EOL</span><span style="color: #007700">;<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">?></span>
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<div class="example-contents"><p>The above example will output
something similar to:</p></div>
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string(3) "foo"
foo
string(12) "/usr/bin/php"
/usr/bin/php
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