d
Amit DhamuSoftware Engineer
 

Get File Extension

1 minute read 00000 views

Method 1

$file = 'video.mp4';
$extension = preg_replace('/^.*./', '', $file);

Method 2

$file = 'video.mp4';
$extension = explode('.', $file);
$extension = end($extension);

Method 3

$file = 'video.mp4';
$extension = explode('.', $file);
$extension = array_pop($extension);

Method 4

$file = 'video.mp4';
$extension = pathinfo($file, PATHINFO_EXTENSION);

Method 5

$file = 'video.mp4';
$file_info = pathinfo($file);
$extension = $file_info['extension'];

// $file_info is an Array which will output something similar to:
Array
(
    [dirname] => .
    [basename] => video.mp4
    [extension] => mp4
    [filename] => video
)

Method 6

$file = 'video.mp4';
$extension = substr(strrchr($file, '.'), 1);