Get a file's version in PHP

[Marius III]

Hi there,

I want to get the file version of a file in PHP.

Do somebody have the code for this?

Thanks alot!

[Janwillem Borleffs]

Re: Get a file's version in PHP

Marius III wrote:[color=blue]
> Hi there,
>
> I want to get the file version of a file in PHP.
>
> Do somebody have the code for this?
>
> Thanks alot!
>[/color]

What do you mean? If you mean the file creation date/last modified date, you
can use the filectime/filemtime functions.


JW

[Marius III]

Re: Get a file's version in PHP

No, I need to get the FileVersion.
For example an EXE files version can be: 2.0.0.260 and a newer version of
this EXE can be 2.0.0.269.


Thanks alot!

[Sadara]

Re: Get a file's version in PHP

Marius III wrote:[color=blue]
> Hi there,
>
> I want to get the file version of a file in PHP.
>
> Do somebody have the code for this?
>
> Thanks alot![/color]

which OS are you working on? OpenVMS?

[Janwillem Borleffs]

Re: Get a file's version in PHP

Marius III wrote:[color=blue]
> No, I need to get the FileVersion.
> For example an EXE files version can be: 2.0.0.260 and a newer
> version of this EXE can be 2.0.0.269.
>[/color]

Since you are mentioning EXE files, I assume that you need this for a
Windows environment.

Here, you can use the COM extension (http://www.php.net/com) as follows:

<?php

//create FSO instance
$fso = new COM("Scripting. FileSystemObjec t")
or die("Could not create Scripting.FileS ystemObject");

$version = $fso->GetFileVersion (realpath('some .exe'));
print $version;

?>


JW

[Peter van Schie]

Re: Get a file's version in PHP

Another option, without using COM, would be to open the binary file and
search for the pattern F\0i\0l\0e\0V\0 e\0r\0s\0i\0o\0 n\0\0\0\0\0
The version is right behind that string:

$strFile = "c:\\my.exe ";
$fpFile = fopen($strFile, "rb");
$strFileContent = fread($fpFile, filesize($strFi le));
fclose($fpFile) ;

$strTagBefore = 'F\0i\0l\0e\0V\ 0e\0r\0s\0i\0o\ 0n\0\0\0\0\0';
$strTagAfter = '\0\0';
if (preg_match("/$strTagBefore(. *?)$strTagAfter/", $strFileContent ,
$arrMatches))
{
print_r($arrMat ches);
}

HTH.
Peter.
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[Iván Sánchez Ortega]

Re: Get a file's version in PHP

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> I want to get the file version of a file in PHP.
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> Do somebody have the code for this?[/color]

Yeah, it's called "Use a CVS or SVN repository for version tracking" and
"use external execution commands like shell_exec to query the repository".

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[Gordon Burditt]

Re: Get a file's version in PHP

>> I want to get the file version of a file in PHP.[color=blue][color=green]
>>
>> Do somebody have the code for this?
>>
>> Thanks alot!
>>[/color]
>
>What do you mean? If you mean the file creation date/last modified date, you
>can use the filectime/filemtime functions.[/color]

filectime does not return a "file creation date". Many operating
systems do not even maintain a file creation date. On the UNIX
variants that do keep a file creation date (only on UFS2 filesystems),
that isn't what filectime returns.

Gordon L. Burditt