basename

It's a shame, that for a 20 years of development we don't have mb_basename() yet!// works both in windows and unixfunction mb_basename($path) {    if (preg_match('@^.*[\\\\/]([^\\\\/]+)$@s', $path, $matches)) {        return $matches[1];    } else if (preg_match('@^([^\\\\/]+)$@s', $path, $matches)) {        return $matches[1];    }    return '';}

There is only one variant that works in my case for my Russian UTF-8 letters:

<?php
function mb_basename($file)
{
    return end(explode('/',$file));
}
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It is intented for UNIX servers

Here is a quick way of fetching only the filename (without extension) regardless of what suffix the file has.<?php// your file$file = 'image.jpg';$info = pathinfo($file);$file_name =  basename($file,'.'.$info['extension']);echo $file_name; // outputs 'image'?>

You might expect that echo basename('directory_name/') would return an empty string. Instead, it returns 'directory_name', without the slash.

If you want the current path where youre file is and not the full path then use this :)<?phpecho('dir = '.basename (dirname($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']),"/"));    // retuns the name of current used directory?>Example: www dir: domain.com/temp/2005/january/t1.php<?phpecho('dirname <br>'.dirname($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']).'<br><br>');    // returns: /temp/2005/january?><?phpecho('file = '.basename ($PHP_SELF,".php"));    // returns: t1?>if you combine these two you get this<?php echo('dir = '.basename (dirname($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']),"/"));    // returns: january?>And for the full path use this<?php echo(' PHP_SELF <br>'.$_SERVER['PHP_SELF'].'<br><br>');// returns: /temp/2005/january/t1.php    ?>