how to extract the parent directory name from a path

For Example let the path be,

$path = "protected/musics/composer/album/song.mp3";
I can extract the file name with the use of basename() function.
$path = basename($path, ".mp3");

Also I want to extract the last two directory names in a variable
example
$composer_name = composer //(extracted from the path $path);
$album_name = album //(extracted from the path $path)

Could you please someone help me out of this? Thanks in advance.

 

isnt your path wrong
$path = "protected/musics/composer/album/song.mp3";

???

use this http://getid3.sourceforge.net/

 

<?php
$path = "protected/musics/composer/album/song.mp3";
//output an array...
print_r(explode("/", $path));
?>

PHP:

Also take alook at http://php.net/manual/en/function.pathinfo.php

 

dirname !!