Removing file extensions from a string with PHP
Posted: October 18th, 2006 | Tags: PHP • Tutorials | Posted in: PHP, Tutorials
Note: This tutorial was originally published in 2006. The tips and techniques explained may be outdated.
This is a question, and I ask because I need some help :)
I have been trying to figure out the best way to remove file extensions from a string, but being completely crap at regular expressions (that’s no understatement by the way) the best I could come up with was something along the ugly lines of this:
function ridExtensions($thefile) {
$ext = substr(strrchr($thefile, "."), 0);
$thefile = str_replace($ext,'',$thefile);
return $thefile;
}
Does anyone have a better method?
