SplFileInfo::getFilename

    (PHP 5 >= 5.1.2, PHP 7, PHP 8)

    SplFileInfo::getFilename — Gets the filename

    Description

    public SplFileInfo::getFilename(): string

    Gets the filename without any path information.

    Parameters

    This function has no parameters.

    Return Values

    The filename.

    Examples

    Example #1 SplFileInfo::getFilename() example

    <?php
    $info     = new SplFileInfo('foo.txt');
    var_dump($info->getFilename());

    $info = new SplFileInfo('/path/to/foo.txt');
    var_dump($info->getFilename());

    $info = new SplFileInfo('http://www.php.net/');
    var_dump($info->getFilename());

    $info = new SplFileInfo('http://www.php.net/svn.php');
    var_dump($info->getFilename());
    ?>

    The above example will output something similar to:

    string(7) "foo.txt"
string(7) "foo.txt"
string(0) ""
string(7) "svn.php"

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    User Contributed Notes 3 notes

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    Alex Russell
    9 years ago
    I was trying to work out the difference between this and getBasename (http://php.net/manual/splfileinfo.getbasename.php) and the only difference I could really see was a special case of a file in the filesystem root with the root specified:

    <?php
    function getInfo($reference)
    {
    $file = new SplFileInfo($reference);

    var_dump($file->getFilename());
    var_dump($file->getBasename());
    }

    $test = [
    '/path/to/file.txt',
    '/path/to/file',
    '/path/to/',
    'path/to/file.txt',
    'path/to/file',
    'file.txt',
    '/file.txt',
    '/file',
    ];

    foreach (    $test as $file) {
    getInfo($file);
    }

    // will return:
    /*
    string(8) "file.txt"
    string(8) "file.txt"

    string(4) "file"
    string(4) "file"

    string(2) "to"
    string(2) "to"

    string(8) "file.txt"
    string(8) "file.txt"

    string(4) "file"
    string(4) "file"

    string(8) "file.txt"
    string(8) "file.txt"

    string(9) "/file.txt" // see how getFilename includes the '/'
    string(8) "file.txt" // but getBasename doesn't

    string(5) "/file" // ditto getFilename
    string(4) "file" // ditto getBasename
    */

    ?>
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    7
    wloske at yahoo dot de
    15 years ago
    It should be mentioned that the function returns the name of the directory if "filename" is of type "directory". Hence

    <?php
    $info     = new SplFileInfo('/path/to/');
    var_dump($info->getFilename());
    ?>

    should return "to"

    The function name is kind of misleading here and I am glad to have it tried.
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    khalidhameedkht at gmail dot com
    7 years ago
    // Careful, output is different for `filename` vs `getFilename`. Inconsistent behaviour.

    $path = 'test.txt';

    $pathInfo = pathinfo($path);
    echo '<pre>';
    print_r($pathInfo);

    echo '<br>';
    echo '***************';

    $splFileInfo = new SplFileInfo($path);
    echo '<br>';
    echo $splFileInfo->getBasename();

    echo '<br>';
    echo $splFileInfo->getFilename();
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