PHP rtrim “.php”

Question

I want to remove \".php\" from the end of a string if it exists. Consider this:

$filename = \'index\';
rtrim($filename,\".php\");//returns \"index\"

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Answer 1

rtrim accepts a list of characters as the second argument, so in this case, it will trim not just the .php extension, but any ., p, or h characters found in the rest of the string.

Try using preg_replace("/(.+)\.php$/", "$1", $filename); instead, or basename($filename, '.php') if you have the file on the server, not just in a string.