Spliting a string into 2?

[Liquid Fire]

ok i am needing to knwo hwo to spilt up a string like:

string1: "c:\images\image.gif

to

string1: "c:\images\"
string2: "image.gif"

and it is only going to be used for directroy string so i need to be able to get the path including all directories in one string and the file name in the other.  how would I go about this?

[brendandonhue]

basename() and dirname()

[xtentic]

And if you like to create a function on your own... here are some tips

substr
for
next

read string from end to begin
if found \ or / you've hit a directory, so all above is filename rest is path.

:)

[Liquid Fire]

now the problem is nto with php but html forms.  i have using the form type "file" but that only seems to send the file name, is there a way to have the person browser there own files liek the "file" form type does but send the directory and file name?

[brendandonhue]

No, information about the user's computer isn't sent like that (using HTML forms anyway, it might be possible in Java or something.)