How to return just file name using glob() in php

Question

How can I just return the file name. $image is printing absolute path name?

<?php
$directory = Yii::getPathOfAlias('webroot').'/uploads/';
$images = glob($directory . "*.{jpg,JPG,jpeg,JPEG,png,PNG}", GLOB_BRACE);
 foreach($images as $image)
   echo $image
?>

All I want is the file name in the specific directory not the absolute name.

Answer 1

Instead of basename, you could chdir before you glob, so the results do not contain the path, e.g.:

<?php
$directory = Yii::getPathOfAlias('webroot').'/uploads/';
chdir($directory); // probably add some error handling around this
$images = glob("*.{jpg,JPG,jpeg,JPEG,png,PNG}", GLOB_BRACE);
 foreach($images as $image)
   echo $image;
?>

This is probably a little faster, but won't make any significant difference unless you have tons of files

Answer 2

Take a look at pathinfo

http://php.net/manual/en/function.pathinfo.php

Pretty helpful function

Answer 3

Use basename()

echo basename($image);

You can also remove the extension like this:

echo basename($image, '.php');

Answer 4

One-liner:

$images = array_map('basename', glob($directory . "*.{jpg,JPG,jpeg,JPEG,png,PNG}", GLOB_BRACE));

Answer 5

Example extracting only file names and converting in new array of filenames width extension.

$dir =  get_stylesheet_directory();//some dir - example of getting full path dir in wordpress
$filesPath = array_filter(glob($dir . '/images/*.*'), 'is_file');

$files = array();       
foreach ($filesPath as $file) 
{
   array_push($files, basename($file));
}

Answer 6

Use php's basename

Returns trailing name component of path

<?php
$directory = Yii::getPathOfAlias('webroot').'/uploads/';
$images = glob($directory . "*.{jpg,JPG,jpeg,JPEG,png,PNG}", GLOB_BRACE);
 foreach($images as $image)
   echo basename($image);
?>