# RarEntry::getName

(PECL rar >= 0.1)

RarEntry::getName — Get name of the entry

### Description

public RarEntry::getName ( ) : string

Returns the name (with path) of the archive entry.

### Parameters

This function has no parameters.

### Return Values

Returns the entry name as a string, or `FALSE` on error.

### Changelog

Version | Description
--- | ---
PECL rar 2.0.0 | As of version 2.0.0, the returned string is encoded in Unicode/UTF-8.

### Examples

Example #1 RarEntry::getName() example

`<?php
//this example is safe even in pages not encoded in UTF-8
//for those encoded in UTF-8, the call to mb_convert_encoding is unnecessary
$rar_file = rar_open('example.rar') or die("Failed to open Rar archive");
$entry = rar_entry_get($rar_file, 'Dir/file.txt') or die("Failed to find such entry");
echo "Entry name: " . mb_convert_encoding(
htmlentities(
$entry->getName(),
ENT_COMPAT,
"UTF-8"
),
"HTML-ENTITIES",
"UTF-8"
);
?>`