Php/docs/splfileinfo.tostring

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• Returns the path to the file as a string

SplFileInfo::__toString

(PHP 5 >= 5.1.2, PHP 7)

SplFileInfo::__toString — Returns the path to the file as a string

Description

public SplFileInfo::__toString ( ) : string

This method will return the file name of the referenced file.

Parameters

This function has no parameters.

Return Values

Returns the path to the file.

Examples

Example #1 SplFileInfo::__toString() example

<?php$info = new SplFileInfo('foo');var_dump($info->__toString());echo $info.PHP_EOL;$info = new SplFileInfo('/usr/bin/php');var_dump($info->__toString());echo $info.PHP_EOL;?>

The above example will output something similar to:

string(3) "foo"
foo
string(12) "/usr/bin/php"
/usr/bin/php