Question

basically i have a folder with php scripts and then in that folder i have another folder with scripts. I want to load the same header file in each folder’s index.php script. The script to include is nav.php located in the inclues folder.

Tree

includes
   nav.php
Folder1
   header.php
   index.php
   Folder2
      index.php

i want to do this:

if getcwd() = 'Folder2'{
    include('../../includes/nav.php');
}else{
    include('../includes/nav.php');

But the problem is getcwd() returns the whole path in a string but i just want the cur directory name. How can I cut the string specifically to the remove everything but the directory name. All solutions are good to know,but im particularly interested in the function for slicing a string in that way.

Answer 1

See function:

basename

Read about it here: http://php.net/manual/en/function.basename.php

basename( getcwd()) 

should return to you the folder name from the path.
Here is an example of basename and dirname:

#> pwd
/home/user
#> php
<?php
echo getcwd() . "\n" ;
echo dirname( getcwd()) . "\n" ;
echo basename( getcwd()) . "\n" ;
?>
/home/user
/home
user