[PHP] Get Folder Name In A Location

[soft2050]

Ok, se we have a folder name: "unknown" in the folder "folder" from relative path

The process is somewhat similar to opendir but i prefer to use glob() for this purpose : http://php.net/manual/en/function.glob.php
Use is_dir function to check whether the specified resource is a directory: http://php.net/manual/en/function.is-dir.php

Check out the below code, i have also commented it a little:

<?php

$folder = array(); // Creates a array for use later

foreach (glob("folder/*") as $thefolder) { // Use for each to go through and get each folder & file in the given directory
    If (is_dir($thefolder)) { // We only want to get folders so we are making sure that we are adding a directory and not a file.
        $folder[] = $thefolder; // Adds the file to the array created
    }
}

echo $folder[0]; // 0 for 1st dir, 1 for 2nd and so on...

?>

I prefer to use glob because we can specify the syntax to search for all filenames

soft2050 Reviewed by soft2050 on 7th Jan 2012. [PHP] Get Folder Name In A Location Hey Guys , Any idea how to get a name of a folder via php . e.g : /...../location/folderx i don't have the name of the folderx , how can i get the folder name via php ? Rating: 5

[viruz99]

thx soft2050 but i'm getting this error :

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_FOREACH on line

foreach (glob("$location\*") as $thefolder) {

* tried the direct location as well path/folder/ instead of $location

@ Humour - its working tho i'm getting "...foldername"