You may want to use the predefined constant PHP_OS as described here :
PHP Manual : Predefined Constants
http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.constants.predefined.php
Regards,
Philip
Rainer Rosenberger wrote:
> I tried to detect the Web-Servers operating system. Under Windows it's
> easy to read the environment variable "OS" (or one of the relatet Server
> Varaibles). Under Linux I found the following very strange behaviour:
>
> system("echo \$OSTYPE") correctly returns "linux-gnu" whereas
> getenv("OSTYPE") returns nothing
>
> Any idea why the simple getenv-solution does not work. Any simpler
> solution than calling the shell "echo"?
>
> Regards
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