dirname

Description

string dirname(string path);

Given a string containing a path to a file, this function will return the name of the directory.

On Windows, both slash (/) and backslash (\) are used as path separator character. In other environments, it is the forward slash (/).

Example 1. dirname() example $path = "/etc/passwd"; $file = dirname($path); // $file is set to "/etc"

See also: basename()