pathinfo Returns information about a file path mixedpathinfo stringpath intoptions pathinfo returns an associative array containing information about path. The following array elements are returned: dirname, basename and extension if any. You can specify which elements are returned with optional parameter options. It composes from PATHINFO_DIRNAME, PATHINFO_BASENAME, PATHINFO_EXTENSION and PATHINFO_FILENAME (available since PHP 5.2.0). It defaults to return all elements. This function returns string if not all elements are requested. ]]> Would produce: For information on retrieving the current path info, read the section on predefined reserved variables. See also dirname, basename, parse_url and realpath.