Does anyone know how to check the php version without using return methods? I looked at php.ini and there also is not much useful. The closest I got was the version of php.exe and php-cgi.exe which is 5.2.7.7.
Can I trust the executable information or is this not the actual version that is installed?
Publication IIS (6 ¬¬) ... You know how to know there? Googlei but I did not find anything useful ...
By command line:
php.exe --version
But be careful: if you have more than one version of php on the machine, the command line executable can be one, and the one running in the webserver, from another.
On my computer there are two versions of PHP, as I am WEB developer I test the versions mainly to visualize the performance.
The version that is configured in my IIS, I check with phpversion(); (which in question you do not want) in a PHP file like this:
<?php
phpversion();
Or by the plugin that I install, which is PHP Manager (although the corresponding version to use it is IIS 7 + ).
By command line, as @bfavaretto has already reported, I can check inside the respective folder which version is that PHP.
Both ways are reliable and give you the expected result.