Question

I want to know the function that can perform the following operation

$str = “uploads/file/file1.jpg”;

i want to slash the initial of the string uploads/file/ and just want to return file1.jpg as value.

i tried using str_replace(),

$str = "uploads/file/file1.jpg";

$str2 = str_replace("uploads/file"," ", $str);

echo $str;

this is not working, where i am going wrong?

EDIT : Silly me i was not noticing that i was trying to echo $str, sorry for this. it is working for me now.

BTW i want to know which method is better the above one or the basename();

Answer 1

Use basename(): It is designed specifically to get the file name part out of a path.

$str2 = basename("uploads/file/file1.jpg");  // Will return file1.jpg

Also interesting (although not necessary in this examle) is pathinfo() which splits a string into four components: Directory, base name, file name, and extension.

The equivalent to split URLs into their components is parse_url().