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];

Answer 2

You can get all file extensions in a particular folder and do operations with a specific file extension:

<?php
    $files = glob("abc/*.*"); // abc is the folder all files inside folder
    //print_r($files);
    //echo count($files);
    for($i=0; $i<count($files); $i++):
         $extension = pathinfo($files[$i], PATHINFO_EXTENSION);
         $ext[] = $extension;
         // Do operation for particular extension type
         if($extension=='html'){
             // Do operation
         }
    endfor;
    print_r($ext);
?>

Answer 3

Use substr($path, strrpos($path,'.')+1);. It is the fastest method of all compares.

@Kurt Zhong already answered.

Let's check the comparative result here: https://eval.in/661574

Answer 4

This will work

$ext = pathinfo($filename, PATHINFO_EXTENSION);

Answer 5

The simplest way to get file extension in PHP is to use PHP's built-in function pathinfo.

$file_ext = pathinfo('your_file_name_here', PATHINFO_EXTENSION);
echo ($file_ext); // The output should be the extension of the file e.g., png, gif, or html

Answer 6

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;