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# posix_uname

(PHP 3 >= 3.0.10, PHP 4, PHP 5)

posix_uname -- Get system name

## Description

array posix_uname ( void )

Returns a hash of strings with information about the system. The indices of the hash are

- sysname - operating system name (e.g. Linux)

- nodename - system name (e.g. valiant)

- release - operating system release (e.g. 2.2.10)

- version - operating system version (e.g. #4 Tue Jul 20 17:01:36 MEST 1999)

- machine - system architecture (e.g. i586)

- domainname - DNS domainname (e.g. example.com)

domainname is a GNU extension and not part of POSIX.1, so this field is only available on GNU systems or when using the GNU libc.

Posix requires that you must not make any assumptions about the format of the values, e.g. you cannot rely on three digit version numbers or anything else returned by this function.

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posix_uname
boards at gmail dot com
29-Jan-2006 09:24
`Or, a simpler way to do that:
<?php
print_r(posix_uname());
?>
Should print something like:
Array
(
[sysname] => Linux
[nodename] => vaio
[release] => 2.6.15-1-686
[version] => #2 Tue Jan 10 22:48:31 UTC 2006
[machine] => i686
)`
sean at thedesignpeople dot com
09-Aug-2004 08:39
`A simple example of how to loop thru and display the results of the posix_uname() function...
<?php
foreach(posix_uname() AS $key=>$value) {
print $key .": ". $value ."<br>";
}
?>
The procedure above should return something similar to the following results:
sysname: Linux
nodename: node1
release: 2.4.26
version: #6 Mon Jun 14 19:07:27 PDT 2004
machine: i686`
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