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

IMO, this is the best way if you have filenames like name.name.name.ext (ugly, but it sometimes happens):

$ext     = explode('.', $filename); // Explode the string
$ext_len = count($ext) - 1; // Count the array -1 (because count() starts from 1)
$my_ext  = $ext[$ext_len]; // Get the last entry of the array

echo $my_ext;