Getting the directory name

My function works...kinda

[madmatt69]

Hey all,

I'd like to grab the last directory in a file path. For example:
mysite.com/category/sub-category/sub-sub/

I'd like the function to grab the /sub-sub/ part.

Right now I'm using:
$dir = dirname(dirname(__FILE__));

But that returns:
/category/sub-category/

How can I get it to return "sub-sub"?

[MattAU]

You'll probably have to do it manually. Something like the following should work:

$dirs = explode('/',$path);
$last_dir = $dirs[count($dirs) - 2];

$path could be dirname(__FILE__), but that only works if the file you're using is in the sub-sub directory.

[eelixduppy]

Something like this should work:

function getDirectory($path) {
$path = trim($path, '/');
return substr($path, strrpos($path, '/')+1);
}

You are going to have to change this function around a little bit if the path can use either front of back slashes, which depends on your OS.

Hope this helps.