Re: [PHP] neubie seeking answers
On 1 April 2011 03:31, Kirk Bailey wrote: > PERFECT SIMPLE SOLUTION. THANK YOU! > > On 3/31/2011 12:34 PM, Stuart Dallas wrote: >> >> On Thursday, 31 March 2011 at 17:24, Kirk Bailey wrote: >> I need to extract the name of the subdirectory a page lives in to >>> >>> use in the title for that page. This will be returned as a string to >>> echo to the output stream. Now how the heck do I do that?!? >> >> $dir = basename(dirname(__FILE__)); >> >> -Stuart Are my posts invisible? -- Richard Quadling Twitter : EE : Zend @RQuadling : e-e.com/M_248814.html : bit.ly/9O8vFY -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] neubie seeking answers
On Friday, 1 April 2011 at 03:31, Kirk Bailey wrote: PERFECT SIMPLE SOLUTION. THANK YOU! As Richard noted there is a constant called __DIR__ which is equivalent to dirname(__FILE__) so basename(__DIR__) will give you what you want and saves a few cycles. -Stuart -- Stuart Dallas 3ft9 Ltd http://3ft9.com/ > On 3/31/2011 12:34 PM, Stuart Dallas wrote: > > On Thursday, 31 March 2011 at 17:24, Kirk Bailey wrote: > > I need to extract the name of the subdirectory a page lives in to > > > use in the title for that page. This will be returned as a string to > > > echo to the output stream. Now how the heck do I do that?!? > > $dir = basename(dirname(__FILE__)); > > > > -Stuart > > -- > end > > Very Truly yours, > - Kirk Bailey, > Largo Florida > > kniht > +-+ > | BOX | > +-+ > think > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] neubie seeking answers
PERFECT SIMPLE SOLUTION. THANK YOU! On 3/31/2011 12:34 PM, Stuart Dallas wrote: On Thursday, 31 March 2011 at 17:24, Kirk Bailey wrote: I need to extract the name of the subdirectory a page lives in to use in the title for that page. This will be returned as a string to echo to the output stream. Now how the heck do I do that?!? $dir = basename(dirname(__FILE__)); -Stuart -- end Very Truly yours, - Kirk Bailey, Largo Florida kniht +-+ | BOX | +-+ think -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] neubie seeking answers
On Thu, 2011-03-31 at 17:34 +0100, Stuart Dallas wrote: > On Thursday, 31 March 2011 at 17:24, Kirk Bailey wrote: > I need to extract the name of the subdirectory a page lives in to > > use in the title for that page. This will be returned as a string to > > echo to the output stream. Now how the heck do I do that?!? > > $dir = basename(dirname(__FILE__)); > > -Stuart > > -- > Stuart Dallas > 3ft9 Ltd > http://3ft9.com/ That is what I was thinking... but for some reason, I couldn't remember it... so I did that whole explode() thing... oh well! Kirk, use that :) -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] neubie seeking answers
On Thu, 2011-03-31 at 12:24 -0400, Kirk Bailey wrote: > I need to extract the name of the subdirectory a page lives in to > use in the title for that page. This will be returned as a string to > echo to the output stream. Now how the heck do I do that?!? > > -- > end > > Very Truly yours, > - Kirk Bailey, > Largo Florida > > kniht >+-+ >| BOX | >+-+ > think > > I am SURE that there is a better reply already... but quick and dirty... -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] neubie seeking answers
On Thursday, 31 March 2011 at 17:24, Kirk Bailey wrote: I need to extract the name of the subdirectory a page lives in to > use in the title for that page. This will be returned as a string to > echo to the output stream. Now how the heck do I do that?!? $dir = basename(dirname(__FILE__)); -Stuart -- Stuart Dallas 3ft9 Ltd http://3ft9.com/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] neubie seeking answers
On 31 March 2011 17:24, Kirk Bailey wrote: > I need to extract the name of the subdirectory a page lives in to use in the > title for that page. This will be returned as a string to echo to the output > stream. Now how the heck do I do that?!? __DIR__ is the name of the directory that the __FILE__ resides in. basename(__DIR__) will give you the directory at the end of the path that this __FILE__ is in. So, for ... C:\PHP\Scripts\script.php will show C:\PHP\Scripts\script.php C:\PHP\Scripts Scripts -- Richard Quadling Twitter : EE : Zend @RQuadling : e-e.com/M_248814.html : bit.ly/9O8vFY -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
