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loophp/phposinfo
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Try to guess the host operating system.

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PHP OS Info
===========

[](#php-os-info)

Description
-----------

[](#description)

Get information of the current operating system where PHP is running on.

Information that you can retrieve are:

- Operating system name
- Operating system family
- Machine UUID

There are many packages that does that already, but most of them are based on the use of the variable `PHP_OS` that contains the operating system name PHP was built on, from [php.net](https://www.php.net/manual/en/reserved.constants.php):

```
 The operating system PHP was built for.

```

However, `PHP_OS` might be sometimes not very accurate, then using [php\_uname()](https://php.net/php_uname) might be a better fit for detecting the operating system, we only use it as a fallback.

This library uses [php\_uname()](https://php.net/php_uname) and a static list of existing operating systems, and then from there, tries to deduct the operating system family.

From PHP 7.2, the variable `PHP_OS_FAMILY` was added and based on the definition from [php.net](https://www.php.net/manual/en/reserved.constants.php):

```
 The operating system family PHP was built for.
 Either of 'Windows', 'BSD', 'Darwin', 'Solaris', 'Linux' or 'Unknown'.

```

So once again, if you're using a PHP which is cross compiled, using those constant is a bad idea.

Requirements
------------

[](#requirements)

- PHP >= 7.1.3

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

`composer require loophp/phposinfo`

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

```