<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >pathinfo</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="PHP Manual" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="Filesystem functions" HREF="ref.filesystem.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="parse_ini_file" HREF="function.parse-ini-file.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="pclose" HREF="function.pclose.html"><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="refentry" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >PHP Manual</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.parse-ini-file.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.pclose.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="function.pathinfo" ></A >pathinfo</H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN26721" ></A ><P > (PHP 4 >= 4.0.3)</P >pathinfo -- Returns information about a file path</DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN26724" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 >array <B CLASS="methodname" >pathinfo</B > ( string path)<BR ></BR ><P > <B CLASS="function" >pathinfo()</B > returns an associative array containing information about <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >path</I ></TT >. The following array elements are returned: <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >dirname</I ></TT >, <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >basename</I ></TT > and <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >extension</I ></TT >. </P ><P > <TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" CLASS="EXAMPLE" ><TR ><TD ><DIV CLASS="example" ><A NAME="AEN26739" ></A ><P ><B >Example 1. <B CLASS="function" >pathinfo()</B > Example</B ></P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="php" ><?php $path_parts = pathinfo("/www/htdocs/index.html"); echo $path_parts["dirname"] . "\n"; echo $path_parts["basename"] . "\n"; echo $path_parts["extension"] . "\n"; ?></PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></TD ></TR ></TABLE > </P ><P > Would produce: <DIV CLASS="informalexample" ><A NAME="AEN26744" ></A ><P ></P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="programlisting" >/www/htdocs index.html html</PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><P ></P ></DIV > </P ><DIV CLASS="note" ><BLOCKQUOTE CLASS="note" ><P ><B >Note: </B > For information on retrieving the current path info, read the section on <A HREF="language.variables.predefined.html" > predefined reserved variables</A >. </P ></BLOCKQUOTE ></DIV ><P > See also <A HREF="function.dirname.html" ><B CLASS="function" >dirname()</B ></A >, <A HREF="function.basename.html" ><B CLASS="function" >basename()</B ></A >, <A HREF="function.parse-url.html" ><B CLASS="function" >parse_url()</B ></A > and <A HREF="function.realpath.html" ><B CLASS="function" >realpath()</B ></A >. </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.parse-ini-file.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.pclose.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >parse_ini_file</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ref.filesystem.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >pclose</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >