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posix_uname

Name

posix_uname — Get system information in array form (POSIX.1, 4.4.1).

Synopsis

array posix_uname(void)

Returns

An array of system information, or FALSE on error.

Description

This function retrieves information about the system upon which PHP is currently executing. This information is returned as an associative array containing the following elements:

sysname: Operating system kernel name (e.g.Linux)
nodename: System hostname
release: Operating system kernel release string (e.g.2.2.14)
version: Operating system kernel version string (e.g.#4 Wed May 17 17:48:12 PDT 2000)
machine: Processor architecture (e.g.i586)

Version

PHP 3.0.10+, PHP 4.0b4+

Example

Example 1092. Getting system information in an array

if (FALSE === ($uname = posix_uname())) {
    echo "Could not get system information.\n";
} else {
    echo "System information:\n";
    print_r($uname);
}

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