scriptygoddess

1 | gafeman

July 21st, 2007 at 2:01 am

hi Jennifer,
also you can do it with:

basename($_SERVER['PHP_SELF'])

and

basename(__FILE__)

Greetings from Spain

2 | Walid

July 31st, 2007 at 1:12 am

echo $parts[count($parts) – 1];
is the same as
echo end($parts)

3 | aequalsb

August 1st, 2007 at 1:59 pm

actually…

"echo basename( $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] )" and "echo basename( __FILE__ )" can return the same results or entirely different results.

why? __FILE__ always refers to the file ITSELF — whether it is included or not whereas PHP_SELF always refers to the "parent" file (the one doing the including).

you can memorize it like this –> (P)HP_SELF = (P)arent and __FILE__ = __child

for more details, check this URL where i've set up an example:
http://abdstudios.net/examples/dirname-basename/

i hope my studies to understand this can help everyone else

4 | Farhan Razzak

August 16th, 2007 at 12:41 am

Good example Mr.aequalsb
u have clearly explain both things ,
but $_SERVER["PHP-SELF"] gives the absolute path not the exact file name.

5 | meowminx

August 16th, 2007 at 9:49 am

Hi! I wanted to leave this comment in the htaccess bit, but I couldn't find the comment form. I just want to thank you for the piece of code in the htaccess you have! I finally got it working without throwing a 500 internal server error! My friend has been puzzled as to why the code she gave me kept doing that! Thank you so much!

6 | aequalsb

August 16th, 2007 at 11:02 am

@Farhan

that's why you use the basename function (as clearly inidcated in the example)
basename( $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] )

so "echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] will output something like
/www/htdocs/index.php
whereas "echo basename ( $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] ) will output
index.php

basename() is a built-in PHP function…

7 | _ck_

August 19th, 2007 at 7:06 am

If you dig around the wordpress/bbpress code you'll see that PHP_SELF doesn't always work as wanted on Windows servers with PHP, etc. They have a function that tries it three different ways!

8 | bahodir

September 19th, 2007 at 12:42 am

filename without path can be found by this way:

substr($_SERVER["SCRIPT_NAME"], strrpos($_SERVER["SCRIPT_NAME"],"/") + 1)

9 | aequalsb

September 20th, 2007 at 10:10 am

my god…

just use –>
basename( $_SERVER[”SCRIPT_NAME”] )

10 | Brad

October 16th, 2007 at 2:06 am

How would you go about tweaking this to make it show "included" php flie names?

11 | aequalsb

October 16th, 2007 at 7:34 am

@Brad

if i'm understanding you correctly, you will have to track this yourself through some scripting method.

example:
========================

========================

unfortunately, there is no built-in function to automatically track a set of files that were included — that i know of…

12 | aequalsb

October 16th, 2007 at 7:36 am

oops… in the post above, the PHP code wasn't translated automatically into HTML entities and looks like it may have been removed…

maybe scriptygoddess can check the post and fix it. otherwise, i no longer have the time to resubmit my post…

13 | aequalsb

June 23rd, 2009 at 10:13 am

thought this might help someone.

the way to get an array of files that have been included by include(), include_once(), require(), require_once() is…

get_included_files()

more info:
http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.get-included-files.php

i also updated my sample page i made "way" back in 2007:
http://abdstudios.net/examples/dirname-basename/

14 | 3Dom

February 22nd, 2011 at 4:02 am

Hi Jennifer

Pretty new at this stuff but busy building myself an include file of useful code, so here's a cool function I made.
It extracts page file name without the dot and appends whatever you want to it.
Really good for inserting in href tags if you want to automate file naming. [

function thisPageAppend($start,$end){ // Extracts the pagefile name before dot, appends text before and after

$currentFile = $_SERVER["PHP_SELF"];
$parts = explode('/', $currentFile);
$currentFile = $parts[count($parts) – 1];
$parts = explode('.',$currentFile);
$fileNameOnly = $parts[0];
echo $start.$fileNameOnly.$end;
};

15 | 3Dom

June 13th, 2011 at 3:53 am

Did it a little better here:

function usePageName($b4,$aft){
$thisPage = $_SERVER["PHP_SELF"];
$parts = Explode('/', $thisPage);
$page = $parts[count($parts) – 1];
echo $b4.$page.$aft;
};