posix_uname
PHP function
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(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)
Get system name
Description
posix_uname(): array|false
Gets information about the system.
Posix requires that assumptions must not be made about the format of the values, e.g. the assumption that a release may contain three digits or anything else returned by this function.
Parameters Parameters
Return Values
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.
The function returns false on failure.
Examples
Example use of posix_uname()
php
<?php
$uname=posix_uname();
print_r($uname);
?>The above example will output something similar to:
output
Array
(
[sysname] => Linux
[nodename] => funbox
[release] => 2.6.20-15-server
[version] => #2 SMP Sun Apr 15 07:41:34 UTC 2007
[machine] => i686
)