I'm trying to get the name of a file in php, but I'm iterating through an array of files so I don't have the exact path... unless there is a method inside the file that returns the name of the file (or the path, in which I can use basename()), which I haven't been able to find. My code looks like this:

foreach ($myfiles as $myfile) {
  // Get name of $myfile here. (Technically as a string)
  if ($myfilename == "Something) {
    // Do something
  }
}

I am trying to find the name of the file ($myfile) so I can manipulate it as if it were a string.

Getting the name of file in PHP is not what I'm looking for, as all the answers imply you have a path, which I do not.

Basically the php equivalent of Java's: File.getName()

Thank you.

CodePudding user response：

The method that you are looking for is pathinfo.

It returns an array with information about the file, the filename index has the name of the file.

CodePudding user response：

Do you need like this?

$file = fopen("File.txt", "r");
// $filename = $file->name; // no way

There is no method for PHP.

Try this way:

<?php

$myfiles = [];
$files = ['fileA.txt', 'fileB.txt'];

foreach($files as $filename) {
    $myfiles[] = ['file' => fopen($filename, "r"), 'filename' => $filename];
}

foreach ($myfiles as $myfile) {
  if ($myfile['filename'] == "Something") {
    // Do something
  }
}

?>