note 100421 added to function.pathinfo

Sometimes we want to get an array of each component in the pathname associated with the correspondent path to that directory. We need it for creating breadCrumbs and stuff like that. So here it goes: <?php /* Function parsePathComponents * parse through all path components * resolves the cross platform slash issue * eliminates extra redundant slashes * @return associative array: ComponentName=>CorrespondentPath */ /* Array */ function parsePathComponents($path,$endSlash=true,$base=false) { for( $path = trim($path), $slash = strstr(PHP_OS,'WIN') ? '\/' : '/', $retArray = array(), $str = $temp = "", $x = 0; $char = @$path{$x}; $x++) { if(!strstr($slash,$char)) $temp .= $char; elseif($temp){ $str .= $temp; $retArray[$temp] = $str.($endSlash ? $slash{0} : ''); $str .= $slash{0}; $temp = ""; } } $base&&$temp and $retArray[$temp] = $str.$temp; return $retArray; } // Testing in WINDOWS // NOTE: UNIX will return paths with normal slashes // return array with path names ending with a slash $path = '/my//stupid//path/to///some/file.php'; $pathComps = parsePathComponents($path); print_r($pathComps); //Array ( [my] => my\ [stupid] => my\stupid\ [path] => my\stupid\path\ [to] => my\stupid\path\to\ [some] => my\stupid\path\to\some\ ) $path = 'my/other//path/'; // return paths not ending with slash print_r(parsePathComponents($path,false)); // Array ( [my] => my [other] => my\other [path] => my\other\path ) $path = 'my//other/path/to///file.php'; // use third argument = true: for capturing the "file.php" base print_r(parsePathComponents($path,true,true)); //Array ( [my] => my\ [other] => my\other\ [path] => my\other\path\ [to] => my\other\path\to\ [file.php] => my\other\path\to\file.php ) ?> ---- Server IP: 69.147.83.197 Probable Submitter: 201.34.81.231 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.pathinfo.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/100421 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/100421/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/100421/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/100421/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/100421/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/100421/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/100421/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/100421 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/100421 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php