php-doc-en/reference/filesystem/functions/basename.xml
Christoph M. Becker 88c1f8d6c9 Fix/clarify dirname/basename docs wrt. locales
For basename(), we declare the behavior regarding invalid characters in
the path as being undefined, since that depends on the availability of
mblen, and also on the position of the invalid characters prior to PHP
8.0.0[1].

dirname() is actually not local-aware, but relies on an ASCII
compatible character encoding regarding the directory separator.  On
Windows, it is however, dependent on the currently set codepage
(although a fallback is still in place to use the Windows ANSI codepage
of the operating system[2], if the string is not valid for the current
codepage).

Again, we declared failure to comply to these assumptions as resulting
in undefined behavior.  Users should make sure to pass valid strings.

[1] <http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commitdiff;h=90705d44e3da1d0aa7b8b4fd921ec597391eccb2>
[2] <5e01542526/win32/codepage.h (L95-L106)>
2021-02-19 15:12:33 +01:00

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
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<refentry xml:id="function.basename" xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook">
<refnamediv>
<refname>basename</refname>
<refpurpose>Returns trailing name component of path</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
<refsect1 role="description">
&reftitle.description;
<methodsynopsis>
<type>string</type><methodname>basename</methodname>
<methodparam><type>string</type><parameter>path</parameter></methodparam>
<methodparam choice="opt"><type>string</type><parameter>suffix</parameter><initializer>""</initializer></methodparam>
</methodsynopsis>
<para>
Given a string containing the path to a file or directory, this function
will return the trailing name component.
</para>
<note>
<para>
<function>basename</function> operates naively on the input string,
and is not aware of the actual filesystem, or path components such
as "<literal>..</literal>".
</para>
</note>
<caution>
<para>
<function>basename</function> is locale aware, so for it to see the
correct basename with multibyte character paths, the matching locale must
be set using the <function>setlocale</function> function.
If <parameter>path</parameter> contains characters which are invalid for the
current locale, the behavior of <function>basename</function> is undefined.
</para>
</caution>
</refsect1>
<refsect1 role="parameters">
&reftitle.parameters;
<para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><parameter>path</parameter></term>
<listitem>
<para>
A path.
</para>
<para>
On Windows, both slash (<literal>/</literal>) and backslash
(<literal>\</literal>) are used as directory separator character. In
other environments, it is the forward slash (<literal>/</literal>).
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><parameter>suffix</parameter></term>
<listitem>
<para>
If the name component ends in <parameter>suffix</parameter> this will also
be cut off.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1 role="returnvalues">
&reftitle.returnvalues;
<para>
Returns the base name of the given <parameter>path</parameter>.
</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1 role="examples">
&reftitle.examples;
<para>
<example>
<title><function>basename</function> example</title>
<programlisting role="php">
<![CDATA[
<?php
echo "1) ".basename("/etc/sudoers.d", ".d").PHP_EOL;
echo "2) ".basename("/etc/sudoers.d").PHP_EOL;
echo "3) ".basename("/etc/passwd").PHP_EOL;
echo "4) ".basename("/etc/").PHP_EOL;
echo "5) ".basename(".").PHP_EOL;
echo "6) ".basename("/");
?>
]]>
</programlisting>
&example.outputs;
<screen>
<![CDATA[
1) sudoers
2) sudoers.d
3) passwd
4) etc
5) .
6)
]]>
</screen>
</example>
</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1 role="seealso">
&reftitle.seealso;
<para>
<simplelist>
<member><function>dirname</function></member>
<member><function>pathinfo</function></member>
</simplelist>
</para>
</refsect1>
</refentry>
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