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]

Marius III wrote:

Hi there,

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

Do somebody have the code for this?

Thanks alot!

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

[Marius III]

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For example an EXE files version can be: 2.0.0.260 and a newer version of
this EXE can be 2.0.0.269.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]

Marius III wrote:

Hi there,

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

Do somebody have the code for this?

Thanks alot!

which OS are you working on? OpenVMS?

[Janwillem Borleffs]

Marius III wrote:

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For example an EXE files version can be: 2.0.0.260 and a newer
version of this EXE can be 2.0.0.269.

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.FileSystemObject")
or die("Could not create Scripting.FileSystemObject");

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

?>
JW

[Peter van Schie]

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

$strFile = "c:\\my.exe";
$fpFile = fopen($strFile, "rb");
$strFileContent = fread($fpFile, filesize($strFile));
fclose($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,
$arrMatches))
{
print_r($arrMatches);
}

HTH.
Peter.
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[Iván Sánchez Ortega]

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Marius III wrote:

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

Do somebody have the code for this?

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]

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

Do somebody have the code for this?

Thanks alot!

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

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