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PHP: extract filename from a full path string
Easily return the filename component of a path with the built-in PHP basename() function. Useful for splitting a string path to get the filename.
code snippet:
<?php
$path = "/home/httpd/html/index.php";
$file = basename($path); // $file is set to "index.php"
$file = basename($path, ".php"); // $file is set to "index"
?>
notes:
this example from the php.net documentation
