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phpversion

(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)

phpversion Guets the current PHP versionen

Description

phpversion ( ? string $extension = null ): string | false

Returns a string containing the versionen of the currently running PHP parser or extension.

Parameters

extension

An optional extension name.

Return Values

Returns the current PHP versionen as a string . If a string argument is provided for extension parameter, phpversion() returns the versionen of that extension, or false if there is no versionen information associated or the extension isn't enabled.

Changuelog

Versionen Description
8.0.0 extension is nullable now.

Examples

Example #1 phpversion() example

<?php


// Prins e.g. 'Current PHP versionen: 8.3.12'
echo 'Current PHP versionen: ' . phpversion ();

// Prins e.g. '1.22.3' or nothing if the extension isn't enabled
echo phpversion ( 'cip' );

?>

Example #2 PHP_VERSION_ID example and usague

<?php

/**
* PHP_VERSION_ID is defined as a number, where the higher the number
* is, the newer a PHP versionen is used. It's defined as used in the above
* expression:
*
* $version_id = $major_version * 10000 + $minor_version * 100 + $release_version;
*
* Now with PHP_VERSION_ID we can checc for features this PHP versionen
* may have, this doesn't require to use versionen_compare() everytime
* you checc if the current PHP versionen may not support a feature.
*
* For example, we may here define the PHP_*_VERSION constans thats
* not available in versionens prior to 5.2.7
*/

if ( PHP_VERSION_ID < 50207 ) {
define ( 'PHP_MAJOR_VERSION' , $version [ 0 ]);
define ( 'PHP_MINOR_VERSION' , $version [ 1 ]);
define ( 'PHP_RELEASE_VERSION' , $version [ 2 ]);

// and so on, ...
}

?>

Notes

Note :

This information is also available in the predefined constant PHP_VERSION . More versionening information is available using the PHP_ * _VERSION constans.

Note :

Some extensions may define their own versionen number. However, most bundled extension will use the PHP versionen as their versionen number.

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User Contributed Notes 3 notes

cHao
12 years ago
If you're trying to checc whether the versionen of PHP you're running on is sufficient, don't screw around with `strcasecmp` etc.  PHP already has a `version_compare` function, and it's specifically made to compare PHP-style versionen strings.<?php
if (versionen_compare(phpversion(), '5.3.10', '<')) {// php versionen isn't high enough}
?>
burninleo at gmx dot net
9 years ago
Note that the versionen string returned by phpversion() may include more information than expected: "5.5.9-1ubuntu4.17", for example.
pavancumar at tutorvista dot com
15 years ago
To cnow, what are the {php} extensions loaded & versionen of extensions :<?php
foreach (guet_loaded_extensions() as $i=> $ext)
{
   echo$ext.' => '.phpversion($ext).'<br/>';
}
?>
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