Question

If I have PHP script, how can I get the filename of the currently executed file without its extension?

Given the name of a script of the form "jquery.js.php", how can I extract just the "jquery.js" part?

Answer 1

Just use the PHP magic constant __FILE__ to get the current filename.

But it seems you want the part without .php. So…

basename(__FILE__, '.php'); 

A more generic file extension remover would look like this…

function chopExtension($filename) {
    return pathinfo($filename, PATHINFO_FILENAME);
}

var_dump(chopExtension('bob.php')); // string(3) "bob"
var_dump(chopExtension('bob.i.have.dots.zip')); // string(15) "bob.i.have.dots"

Using standard string library functions is much quicker, as you’d expect.

function chopExtension($filename) {
    return substr($filename, 0, strrpos($filename, '.'));
}