<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >version_compare</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="PHP Manual" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="PHP Options&Information" HREF="ref.info.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="set_time_limit" HREF="function.set-time-limit.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="zend_logo_guid" HREF="function.zend-logo-guid.html"><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="refentry" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >PHP Manual</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.set-time-limit.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.zend-logo-guid.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="function.version-compare" ></A >version_compare</H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN75351" ></A ><P > (PHP 4 >= 4.1.0)</P >version_compare -- Compares two "PHP-standardized" version number strings </DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN75354" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 >int <B CLASS="methodname" >version_compare</B > ( string version1, string version2 [, string operator])<BR ></BR ><P > <B CLASS="function" >version_compare()</B > compares two "PHP-standardized" version number strings. This is useful if you would like to write programs working only on some versions of PHP. </P ><P > <B CLASS="function" >version_compare()</B > returns -1 if the first version is lower than the second, 0 if they are equal, and +1 if the second is lower. </P ><P > If you specify the third optional <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >operator</I ></TT > argument, you can test for a particular relationship. The possible operators are: <TT CLASS="literal" ><</TT >, <TT CLASS="literal" >lt</TT >, <TT CLASS="literal" ><=</TT >, <TT CLASS="literal" >le</TT >, <TT CLASS="literal" >></TT >, <TT CLASS="literal" >gt</TT >, <TT CLASS="literal" >>=</TT >, <TT CLASS="literal" >ge</TT >, <TT CLASS="literal" >==</TT >, <TT CLASS="literal" >=</TT >, <TT CLASS="literal" >eq</TT >, <TT CLASS="literal" >!=</TT >, <TT CLASS="literal" ><></TT >, <TT CLASS="literal" >ne</TT > respectively. Using this argument, the function will return 1 if the relationship is the one specified by the operator, 0 otherwise. </P ><P > <TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" CLASS="EXAMPLE" ><TR ><TD ><DIV CLASS="example" ><A NAME="AEN75389" ></A ><P ><B >Example 1. <B CLASS="function" >version_compare()</B > Example</B ></P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="php" >// prints -1 echo version_compare("4.0.4", "4.0.6"); // these all print 1 echo version_compare("4.0.4", "4.0.6", "<"); echo version_compare("4.0.6", "4.0.6", "eq");</PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></TD ></TR ></TABLE > </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.set-time-limit.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.zend-logo-guid.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >set_time_limit</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ref.info.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >zend_logo_guid</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >