<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >dirname</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="Manual PHP" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="Filesystem Functions" HREF="ref.filesystem.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="delete" HREF="function.delete.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="disk_free_space" HREF="function.disk-free-space.html"><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-2"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="refentry" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >Manual PHP</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.delete.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Înapoi</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.disk-free-space.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Înainte</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="function.dirname" ></A >dirname</H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN27458" ></A ><P > (PHP 3, PHP 4 , PHP 5)</P >dirname -- Returns directory name component of path</DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN27461" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 >string <B CLASS="methodname" >dirname</B > ( string path)<BR ></BR ><P > Given a string containing a path to a file, this function will return the name of the directory. </P ><P > On Windows, both slash (<VAR CLASS="literal" >/</VAR >) and backslash (<VAR CLASS="literal" >\</VAR >) are used as directory separator character. In other environments, it is the forward slash (<VAR CLASS="literal" >/</VAR >). </P ><P > <TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" CLASS="EXAMPLE" ><TR ><TD ><DIV CLASS="example" ><A NAME="AEN27475" ></A ><P ><B >Exemplu 1. <B CLASS="function" >dirname()</B > example</B ></P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><code><font color="#000000"> <font color="#0000BB"><?php<br />$path </font><font color="#007700">= </font><font color="#DD0000">"/etc/passwd"</font><font color="#007700">;<br /></font><font color="#0000BB">$file </font><font color="#007700">= </font><font color="#0000BB">dirname</font><font color="#007700">(</font><font color="#0000BB">$path</font><font color="#007700">); </font><font color="#FF8000">// $file is set to "/etc"<br /></font><font color="#0000BB">?></font> </font> </code></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></TD ></TR ></TABLE > </P ><DIV CLASS="note" ><BLOCKQUOTE CLASS="note" ><P ><B >Notã: </B > In PHP 4.0.3, <B CLASS="function" >dirname()</B > was fixed to be POSIX-compliant. Essentially, this means that if there are no slashes in <VAR CLASS="parameter" >path</VAR > , a dot ('<VAR CLASS="literal" >.</VAR >') is returned, indicating the current directory. Otherwise, the returned string is <VAR CLASS="parameter" >path</VAR > with any trailing <VAR CLASS="literal" >/component</VAR > removed. Note that this means that you will often get a slash or a dot back from <B CLASS="function" >dirname()</B > in situations where the older functionality would have given you the empty string. </P ></BLOCKQUOTE ></DIV ><P > <B CLASS="function" >dirname()</B > has changed its behaviour in PHP 4.3.0. Check the following examples: <DIV CLASS="informalexample" ><P ></P ><A NAME="AEN27489" ></A ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><code><font color="#000000"> <font color="#0000BB"><?php<br /><br /></font><font color="#FF8000">//before PHP 4.3.0<br /></font><font color="#0000BB">dirname</font><font color="#007700">(</font><font color="#DD0000">'c:/'</font><font color="#007700">); </font><font color="#FF8000">// returned '.'<br /><br />//after PHP 4.3.0<br /></font><font color="#0000BB">dirname</font><font color="#007700">(</font><font color="#DD0000">'c:/'</font><font color="#007700">); </font><font color="#FF8000">// returns 'c:'<br /><br /></font><font color="#0000BB">?></font> </font> </code></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><P ></P ></DIV > </P ><P > See also <A HREF="function.basename.html" ><B CLASS="function" >basename()</B ></A >, <A HREF="function.pathinfo.html" ><B CLASS="function" >pathinfo()</B ></A >, and <A HREF="function.realpath.html" ><B CLASS="function" >realpath()</B ></A >. </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.delete.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Înapoi</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Acasã</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.disk-free-space.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Înainte</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >delete</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ref.filesystem.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Sus</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >disk_free_space</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >