How to remove extension from string in PHP?

There are three ways of removing an extension from string. They are as follows

• Using an inbuilt function pathinfo
• Using an inbuilt function basename
• Using an string functions substr and strrpos

Using pathinfo() Function: The pathinfo() function returns an array containing the directory name, basename, extension and filename.

Syntax:

pathinfo ( $path, $options = PATHINFO_DIRNAME|PATHINFO_BASENAME|PATHINFO_EXTENSION|PATHINFO_FILENAME )

Alternatively, if only one PATHINFO_ constants is passed as a parameter it returns only that part of the full filename.

Example:

<?php

// Initializing a variable with filename
$file = 'filename.html';

// Extracting only filename using constants
$x = pathinfo($file, PATHINFO_FILENAME);

// Printing the result
echo $x;

?>

Output:

filename

Note: If the filename contains a full path, then only the filename without the extension is returned.

Using basename() Function: The basename() function is used to return trailing name component of path in the form of string. The basename() operates naively on the input string, and is not aware of the actual file-system, or path components such as “..”
Syntax:

basename ( $path, $suffix )

When an extension of file is known it can be passed as a parameter to basename function to tell it to remove that extension from the filename.

Example:

<?php

// Initializing a variable
// with filename
$file = 'filename.txt';

// Suffix is passed as second
// parameter
$x = basename($file, '.txt');

// Printing the result
echo $x;

?>

Output:

filename

Using substr()and strrpos() function: Another way of removing an extension from a filename is using the string functions substr and strrpos. The substr() function returns the part of string whereas strrpos() finds the position of last occurrence of substring in a string.

Syntax:

substr ( $string, $start, $length )

Example:

<?php

// Initializing a variable
// with filename
$file = 'filename.txt';

// Using substr
$x = substr($file, 0, strrpos($file, '.'));

// Display the filename
echo $x;

?>

Output:

filename

Note: If the filename contains a full path, then the full path and filename without the extension is returned.