On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 11:17 AM, Mladen Milankovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5/6/08, lilmouseman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Hi Everyone. First time poster. >> >> My question is about extracting part of a path from the right. >> >> e.g. folder/images/testimage.jpg >> >> how do I get everything from the right all the way up to the first "/" >> >> Thank you in advance. >> > > Hi and welcome. > Try something like this: > $path = 'folder/images/testimage.jpg'; > substr($path, strpos($path, '/')); > > This will give you: /images/testimage.jpg > > If you don't need the first / : > substr($path, strpos($path, '/')+1); > This will give: images/testimage.jpg > > regards > mmlado >
I thought that was what he wanted too but as William pointed out it may not be... Using the above method you can use the strrpos instead of strpos (reverse search). Or you coulud use the basename function provided by php. Phill References: http://php.net/strrpos http://php.net/strpos http://php.net/basename
