Remove file extension from filename in PHP

October 1, 2010 by Nikola Vasiljevski

I found great function to remove file extension from filename in PHP. Anton Zamov created this function and I’m just reporting it to show my appreciation.

Function:


function RemoveExtension($strName) 
{    
    $ext = strrchr($strName, '.');    
    if($ext !== false) 
    {       
        $strName = substr($strName, 0, -strlen($ext));    
    }    
    return $strName; 
}

Usage:

$filename = "myfile.jpeg"; echo RemoveExtension($filename);

Output:

myfile

Short, easy and understandable. If someone has a better solution let me know.

Nikola Vasiljevski

4 thoughts on “Remove file extension from filename in PHP”

Varun Nath says:

February 6, 2013 at 10:59 am

You can use the inbuilt pathinfo function to access the filename without extension

$filename= ‘woof.jpg’;
$string=pathinfo($filename,PATHINFO_FILENAME);
echo $filename;

// outputs woof
Nikola Vasiljevski says:

October 16, 2013 at 11:59 am

Interesting, I have to try this out 🙂 Thanks!
Ami says:

June 1, 2015 at 5:09 am

Thanks a lot! :))
Anthony Armentrout says:

February 18, 2016 at 12:55 am

$filename= ‘woof.jpg’;
$string=strstr($filename,’.’,true);
echo $filename;

// outputs woof