在php中删除url字符串的最后一部分

Question

I have a url string like this:

http://example.com/sfm?dir=uploads/sfm/root/folder5/file.zip

echo $_GET['extract'] outputs this: uploads/sfm/root/folder5/file.zip How can i strip the last file.zip so that

echo $_GET['extract'] outputs this: uploads/sfm/root/folder5/

Answer 1

Just use dirname - Returns a parent directory's path

echo dirname($_GET['extract'])."/";