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

A quick fix would be something like this.

// Exploding the file based on the . operator
$file_ext = explode('.', $filename);

// Count taken (if more than one . exist; files like abc.fff.2013.pdf
$file_ext_count = count($file_ext);

// Minus 1 to make the offset correct
$cnt = $file_ext_count - 1;

// The variable will have a value pdf as per the sample file name mentioned above.
$file_extension = $file_ext[$cnt];