Re: Get previous folder

You could also explode() on "/" and have all your directories in an array. Joshua Groboski SAVVIS Communications http://www.savvis.net "David Nicholson" <me@djnicholson.com> wrote in message news:<3d43cb0230c4f1ab6b9700689a881ec5@home.djnicholson.com>... Hello, This is a reply to an e-mail that you wrote on Thu, 10 Jul 2003 at 13:04, lines prefixed by '>' were originally written by you. > Anyone know how I can stip off the end of a folder location, so that > it will be a folder in the next level up? I want to turn something > like this: > /path/to/folder/MyFolder/ > into somthing like this: > /path/to/folder/ > I just need to strip off the last folder and that is it. Can anyone > help me out? I appreciate it. Thanks. > Matt Try $folder = "/path/to/folder/MyFolder/"; $upOneLevel = dirname($folder); // $folder now contains "/path/to/folder/" For more info look at: http://uk2.php.net/manual/en/function.dirname.php HTH David. -- phpmachine :: The quick and easy to use service providing you with professionally developed PHP scripts :: http://www.phpmachine.com/ Professional Web Development by David Nicholson http://www.djnicholson.com/ QuizSender.com - How well do your friends actually know you? http://www.quizsender.com/ (developed entirely in PHP) ----------