Hopefully this is a simple question with a simple answer!

I need to extract the current directory into a variable. I can easily get the current working directory, but that contains the full path and I only want the last part of it,

e.g.

$folder=getcwd();
echo $folder;

c:\program files\apache group\apache\htdocs\bs\folder1

... when I really just want 'folder1'. Is there an easy way of doing this?



Richard H.

I've been given the following code which does the job:

<?php
$filepathone = $HTTP_SERVER_VARS["PHP_SELF"];
$filepathtwo = dirname($filepathone);
$filepaththree = dirname($filepathtwo);
$filepathfour = dirname($filepaththree);
$filenameone = basename($filepathone);
$filenametwo = basename($filepathtwo);
$filenamethree = basename($filepaththree);
$filenamefour = basename($filepathfour);
echo "<br />$filenametwo";
?>

Is there a more elegant way of doing this? I'm very happy to have got it working already, but it's always nice to find a smaller, tighter method if at all possible.


Richard H.

i dont know is this usefull for u?

$path_parts = pathinfo(getcwd());
echo basename($path_parts["dirname"]);
echo "<br>".$path_parts["basename"];

jomet.

That's great! Exactly what I was after! :D

Many Thanks,



Richard H.