PHP: remove filename from path

You want dirname()

<?php
    $path = pathinfo('images/alphabet/abc/23345.jpg');
    echo $path['dirname'];
?>

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

dirname() only gives you the parent folder’s name, so dirname() will fail where pathinfo() will not.

For that, you should use pathinfo():

$dirname = pathinfo('images/alphabet/abc/23345.jpg', PATHINFO_DIRNAME);

The PATHINFO_DIRNAME tells pathinfo to directly return the dirname.

See some examples:

• For path images/alphabet/abc/23345.jpg, both works:

  <?php
  
  $dirname = dirname('images/alphabet/abc/23345.jpg'); 
  // $dirname === 'images/alphabet/abc/'
  
  $dirname = pathinfo('images/alphabet/abc/23345.jpg', PATHINFO_DIRNAME); 
  // $dirname === 'images/alphabet/abc/'
  

• For path images/alphabet/abc/, where dirname fails:

  <?php
  
  $dirname = dirname('images/alphabet/abc/'); 
  // $dirname === 'images/alphabet/'
  
  $dirname = pathinfo('images/alphabet/abc/', PATHINFO_DIRNAME); 
  // $dirname === 'images/alphabet/abc/'