Re: [PHP] dirname bug From: Marko Vukovic' (vukko <email protected>)
Date: 09/18/00

Maurizio Firmani wrote:
>
> Using PHP 4.0.1pl2
> I've found a strange behaviour of function dirname:
>
> $fileName = "/dir/";
> print "dirname:".dirname($fileName);
>
> gives:
> dirname:
>
> while if $fileName= "/dir/foo.bar" gives:
> dirname: /dir
>
> while if $fileName="/dir" produces nothing in the output, again:
> dirname:
>
> Strange, uh?

Not really, according to the manual:
"Given a string containing a path to a file, this function will return the name of the directory."
Now, as I understand the above, the string ($filename) has to a path to an actual file/s, so therefore $fileName = "/dir/*"; should do the trick. 

-- 
Marko.

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