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dirname

(PHP3 , PHP4 )

dirname -- Return directory name component of path

Description

string dirname (string path)

Given a string containing a path to a file, this function will return the name of the directory.

On Windows, both slash (/) and backslash (\) are used as path separator character. In other environments, it is the forward slash (/).

Example 1. dirname() example


$path = "/etc/passwd";
$file = dirname($path); // $file is set to "/etc"

See also: basename()


User Contributed Notes: dirname

j-emmons@sjca.edu
16-Dec-1999 05:57
It's interesting to note that dirname() does not treat /foo/ as a directory. This means that if you hand it the URI of and address that doesn't specify an index file, like http://www.bar.com/foo/, it will return ""


Examples:

<PRE>
dirname("/foo/index.html"); #returns "/foo" whereas

dirname("/foo/"); #returns ""
</PRE>

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