How do I get a file extension in PHP?

Question

This is a question you can read everywhere on the web with various answers:

$ext = end(explode(\'.\', $filename));
$ext = substr(strrchr($filename, \'.\'), 1         


        

Answer 1

pathinfo is an array. We can check directory name, file name, extension, etc.:

$path_parts = pathinfo('test.png');

echo $path_parts['extension'], "\n";
echo $path_parts['dirname'], "\n";
echo $path_parts['basename'], "\n";
echo $path_parts['filename'], "\n";