Help with Glob () output

I just discovered glob as a faster way to perform a task I need done. I want to read a subdirectory and create links with the output. Here is the code and the questions follow.

<?php
//Take all file names in the directory and put them in a link.

foreach (glob("dir_name/*.*") as $filename) 
{
   echo "<a href=\"".$filename."\">".$filename."</a><br/>";
}
?> 

Code (markup):

This works fine except the output to the browser reads as dir_name/filename.ext.

What I want to do is maintain the link exactly as it is and strip the dir_name and .ext (dot extension) from the browser display. I fell like I need to use explode but am not sure exactly to write the code to do that.

 

Have a look at pathinfo...

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.pathinfo.php

It will split your filename up into the path, the extension, the filename etc...

 

foreach (glob("dir_name/*.*") as $filename) 
{
   echo '<a href="' . $filename. '">' . array_pop(explode('/', array_shift(explode('.', $filename)))) . '</a><br/>';
}

PHP:

There you go, although strictly speaking, you shouldn't have a function inside a function, let alone 3 functions inside 1. But as you're attempting to do it all in 1 line, I'm sure you'll appreciate it more this way.

 

For PHP 5.2.0+

pathfinfo($filename, PATHINFO_FILENAME)

PHP:

Or:

basename($filename, '.' . end(explode('.', $filename)))

PHP:

Umm... before I rant about it, I'd rather hear your reason for this.

 

His posted solution worked fine. I don't know enough to comment on his statement. I can say that the execution slowed down based on the straight glob. Just enough to notice. Most people would not.

 

I have no personal reasons as to why not aside from readability, but if you put PHP in its pedantic mode it will throw you a notification.

Reps...?