get Extension of requested file

[MarcS (Marcschuetze)]

Hi everyone,

I’d like to retrieve the file extension of the requested url (empty, .html, .xml, …) in order to show an xml response instead of a html response if that is requested.

Is there a way to do this?

I checked CRequest but it doesn’t seem to have that.

Any pointers?

[qiang (Qiang Xue)]

You need to do this by yourself:

$pathinfo=Yii::app()->request->pathInfo;

if(($pos=strrpos($pathinfo,'.'))!==false)

   $extension=substr($pathinfo,$pos+1);

[MarcS (Marcschuetze)]

thanks,

I assume the best way would be to also add a filter which would change the default layout? and would change the viewpath to something like views/controller/xml/ ?

You need to do this by yourself:

$pathinfo=Yii::app()->request->pathInfo;

if(($pos=strrpos($pathinfo,'.'))!==false)

   $extension=substr($pathinfo,$pos+1);