[SOLVED] help with split

[denoteone]

I would like to split a variable at the "." and then save the part to the right in a new variable called $ext. I am pretty sure that I would use split but I am having and issue.

$file = "mypage.php";

$ext = split($file.".");
echo $ext[1];   

should read   php

 

Thanks

[premiso]

$file = "mypage.php";

list($file, $ext) = explode(".", $file);
echo $file . " has the extension of " . $ext;  

 

I tend to prefer explode for something simple like this.

 

Also look at list. Alternatively there is a pathinfo function in mysql php which breaks that out into an associative array so $array['extension'] would contain that, incase the file name may have multiple periods in it.

[denoteone]

got it working thanks for your help!