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Get the directory name from a file path string in PHP

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By Benjamin Melançon
on 28 Apr
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get file path from string php folder exists extract dirname filename

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There is a built-in PHP function to get the directory portion of a file path from a string (lopping off the filename itself).

http://us3.php.net/dirname

 
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Posted by dave (not verified) on Wed, 2009-08-26 04:08
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