Thursday, January 10, 2008

Detecting the OS using PHP

Sometimes it is necessary to detect the operating system on which your php code is running. PHP has number of pre defined variables and PHP_OS is one such variable which is an string containing the operating system name.
So following code checks whether the system is running on windows or not.

if (stristr(PHP_OS, 'WIN')) {
echo "Win32";
}
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7 comments:

  1. AnonymousMay 22, 2009 at 2:31 AM

    What if the operating system is named "DARWIN".

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  2. AnonymousJune 2, 2009 at 10:39 AM

    DARWIN refers to macs

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  3. ඩිල්-බර්ටිJuly 31, 2009 at 7:03 AM

    When I want to detect the OS, I use
    if(stristr($_SERVER['SERVER_SOFTWARE'], 'Win32'))
    $slash = '\\';
    else
    $slash = '/';

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  4. IslandwooAugust 28, 2009 at 8:32 PM

    This is the easiest solution I've found on the web. I just did a if...else...to serve Mac related ads to visitors with mac

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  5. fernandoNovember 27, 2009 at 4:32 PM

    ok

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  6. AnonymousApril 7, 2010 at 5:54 AM

    Doesn't that just tell you what software the server is running rather than the end user?

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  7. AnonymousApril 8, 2010 at 4:49 PM

    php_uname('s') is more correct that PHP_OS

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