PHP substring question

ChicoMendez · 10-03-2006 04:17PM #1

Hi

if i have a string in php - http://www.thesite.com/image1.jpg
how do i extract the image1.jpg from the string using the substring function or other.

Thanks

Seth Brundle · 10-03-2006 04:23PM

You could replace your substring with nothing
http://ie.php.net/str_replace
or are you trying to get the path without knowing the filename?

ChicoMendez · 10-03-2006 04:31PM

kbannon wrote:

You could replace your substring with nothing
http://ie.php.net/str_replace
or are you trying to get the path without knowing the filename?

ya i wont necessarily know the name in advance... i need to go from the end of teh string to the first '/' and chop that off.

Thanks

Serbian · 10-03-2006 04:31PM

It would probably be better to use RegEx or something but here is the quick and nasty way of doing it:

[php]<?php
function get_file_name ($string) {
$string = explode("/", $string);
return $string[sizeof($string)-1];
}

$string = "http://www.thesite.com/image1.jpg";
$filename = get_file_name($string);
?>
[/php]

ChicoMendez · 10-03-2006 04:39PM

tnx lads

Serbian ur a mastermind!

daymobrew · 13-03-2006 05:05PM

You could use the built in basename function.

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