PHP Fetch current page name without extension? - php

Question

I want to show the current pages filename as the page title, but without the extension. And if possible, the first character should be capitalized. Is this possible?

Answer 1

Everyone loves one-liners:
ucfirst(pathinfo($_SERVER['PHP_SELF'], PATHINFO_FILENAME))
The second argument to pathinfo() strips the path and extension from the file name (PHP >= 5.2)
Btw, I'm using $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] instead of __FILE__ because otherwise it would break if the code is ran from another file ;-)

Answer 2

Yes, you can do it, but you may want to do some extra parsing for spaces. However, this is the simplest way, and directly according to your instructions.
echo '<title>';
echo ucwords(str_replace('.php', '', __FILE__));
echo '</title>';
What I did here is to get the FILE constant which is the name of the file being executed. Find the .php extension and replace it with blank (assuming '.php' doesn't occur anywhere else in the filename).
Function ucwords() capitalizes the first letter of substrings separated by spaces.
If you want to do further parsing for spaces, you'll need to recognize the format of your file names and do string replacements/regex accordingly.

Answer 3

If you want to go from script.php to Script, yes:
// pathinfo give info about given file and returns it into an associative array:
$info = pathinfo( __FILE__ );
// the filename key holds file name without extension nor parent path:
$title = ucwords( $info['filename'] );

Answer 4

For the first letter needs to be Capitalized, use ucfirst(). That is the Uppercase First character function. You can also use ucwords() for uppercased words.
To get the filename minus the extenseion, use the pathinfo() funciton.
$path_parts = pathinfo(__FILE__);
echo ucfirst($path_parts['filename']);

Answer 5

Yes it's possible:
<?php
$page = basename($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']); // Get script filename without any path information
$page = str_replace( array( '.php', '.htm', '.html' ), '', $page ); // Remove extensions
$page = str_replace( array('-', '_'), ' ', $page); // Change underscores/hyphens to spaces
$page = ucwords( $page ); // uppercase first letter of every word
echo "This title is: $page";

Answer 6

You have 3 scripts: nav.php containerpage.php and footer.php.
In nav.php, put this:
<title><?php
if (isset($subtitle)) {echo "$subtitle";}
else {echo "some other title";}
?>
</title>
in container.php, put this:
<?php $subtitle = ucwords(str_replace('.php', '', __FILE__)); ?>
after that line include your nav.php script:
<?php include("nav.php"); ?>
This may or may not work depending on your site structure, but this is how I've solved this issue other times.

Answer 7

I know this question is 6 years old but, I just wanted to give another way to get the file name.
$_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME']
or
$_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME']
Check out the PHP docs on the SERVER global.