However, for best practice, I would use the constant PHP_VERSION. No function overhead, and cleaner IMO. No function overhead, and cleaner IMO. Also, be sure to use version_compare() if you are comparing PHP versions for compatibility.

It still has let me to learn a bit about this operator that was new to me in it's short version, so post received an upvote. – Soul Reaver Commented Nov 25, 2020 at 12:13

Mar 24, 2018 · Go to xampp control panel start the apache and mysql and click the admin besides the MySQL. After phpmyadmin page open, there you can see php version, Apache version and MySQL version in that open page.

Dec 31, 2020 · Even when I changed the phpcli version in Wamp manager, it kept on doing the same. And it is impossible to install wamp without php 5 for some reason. What finally worked was going to the bin\php folder. I then inserted an underscore "_" infront of the folder name of php 5. After that, cli started showing the php version specified in path ...

May be you might have an old PHP version like PHP 5.6 in your system and you installed PHP 7.2 too so thats multiple PHP in your machine. There are some applications which were developed when older PHP 5.6 was latest version, they are still live and you working on those applications, You might be working on Laravel simultaneously but Laravel ...

Jun 4, 2012 · (1) On my machine (running in Windows 7 32-bit, Apache hosting environment), the PHP version is 5.3.8, and mysqli version is 5.0.8-dev, and (2) On the server (running on Windows Server 2008, IIS7 hosting environment), the PHP version is 5.2.14 and mysqli version is 5.0.51a. What can I do in this case.

Jan 30, 2018 · All used PHP version config needs to be enabled via a2enconfig command before you can use it.* EDIT: *Actually not. I have all disabled and just the vhost determinate which PHP needs to run on which directory/site. I had to do this because I have a simple script that changes the default PHP version.

Apr 19, 2020 · At this point, you should be thinking "OK, so if I'm using a multi-threaded web server and I'm going to embed PHP right into it, then I must use the thread-safe version of PHP". And this would be correct thinking. However, as it happens, PHP's thread-safety is highly disputed. It's a use-if-you-really-really-know-what-you-are-doing ground ...

Aug 24, 2012 · (Unrelatedly, it's terrifying that a web host is still supplying a PHP version which has been end-of-life for nearly eight years.) – user149341 Commented Nov 8, 2018 at 18:56

May 5, 2012 · I'm using WAMP which runs php version 7.0.4 this is also confirmed in the browser if I echo the php version. But when I use php -v in the console it shows that I'm using PHP version 5.5.12 (cli). I've searched a bit around on google and I found out that it uses my windows PHP version instead of my webserver's version. But I couldn't find out ...