Req #76702 [Com]: pathinfo's $options should accept a bitmask value

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=76702&edit=1 ID: 76702 Comment by: a at b dot c dot de Reported by: jerry at jmweb dot net Summary: pathinfo's $options should accept a bitmask value Status: Open Type: Feature/Change Request Package: Filesystem function related PHP Version: Irrelevant Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: How, for example, would (PATHINFO_DIRNAME | PATHINFO_EXTENSION) or (PATHINFO_BASENAME | PATHINFO_FILENAME) be handled? I'd be more inclined to write the test script as: $path = '/dir/file.ext'; $newExt = '.ext2'; ['dirname' => $dir, 'basename' => $file] = pathinfo($path); $newPath = "$dir/$file$newExt"; But that may just be me. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2018-08-03 22:32:26] jerry at jmweb dot net Description: ------------ Obtaining a file's path + filename is quite cumbersome using pathinfo() since the $options argument accept one of a discrete set of values. It would be nice if we could supply a bitmask instead. A real-world case is caching output from .php pages. The web server routes /path/, to /path/index.php and it saves it's own output to /path/index.html. The next request is then served the contents of index.html directly by the web server. I am not sure how difficult it would be to implement, but I see it useful. Test script: --------------- $path = '/dir/file.ext'; $newExt = '.ext2'; $newPath = pathinfo( $path, PATHINFO_DIRNAME ) . '/' . pathinfo( $path, PATHINFO_FILENAME ) . $newExt; // /dir/file.ext2 // if pathinfo could accept a bitmask $newPathBitmask = pathinfo( $path, PATHINFO_DIRNAME | PATHINFO_FILENAME ) . $newExt; // /dir/file.ext2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=76702&edit=1