Question

I’m making a CLI script that mass renames files, however I do not know how to get the extension of a file that I don’t know the extension of… Basically the CSV file I have is laid out like so:

"New filename", "oldfile",
"New filename", "oldfile"

No extension is given on the old file. How would I go about doing this? I would greatly appreciate the help.

Answer 1

pathinfo will return an array which includes that information. You’re specifically looking for the key ‘extension’.

<?php
// from http://php.net/manual/en/function.pathinfo.php
$path_parts = pathinfo('/www/htdocs/inc/lib.inc.php');

echo $path_parts['dirname'], "\n";
echo $path_parts['basename'], "\n";
echo $path_parts['extension'], "\n";
echo $path_parts['filename'], "\n"; // since PHP 5.2.0
?>