{"id":53,"date":"2011-03-21T08:08:08","date_gmt":"2011-03-21T08:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pixert.com\/blog\/?p=53"},"modified":"2011-08-11T06:09:27","modified_gmt":"2011-08-11T06:09:27","slug":"how-to-check-what-php-version-running-on-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pixert.com\/blog\/how-to-check-what-php-version-running-on-linux\/","title":{"rendered":"How to check what PHP version running on Linux?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pixert.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/php.gif\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"64\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/pixert.com\/blog\/how-to-check-what-php-version-running-on-linux\/php\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pixert.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/php.gif?fit=120%2C67&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"120,67\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"php\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pixert.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/php.gif?fit=120%2C67&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pixert.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/php.gif?fit=120%2C67&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-64\" title=\"php\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pixert.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/php.gif?resize=120%2C67\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"67\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s very simple to check PHP version<\/p>\n<p>1. PHP Info<\/p>\n<p>You can use the following to yield PHP version number via Command Line<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: bash; title: Code Block; notranslate\" title=\"Code Block\">php -i<\/pre>\n<p>or<\/p>\n<p>You can create a php file contain the following, upload it to your website<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: php; title: Code Block; notranslate\" title=\"Code Block\">phpinfo();<\/pre>\n<p>Note: if your sys admin <a title=\"Disable phpinfo\" href=\"http:\/\/pixert.com\/blog\/how-to-disable-phpinfo\/\" target=\"_blank\">disabled phpinfo<\/a>, you cannot check what PHP version with phpinfo()<br \/>\n2. Short Info in SSH<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You can use the following to yield PHP version number via Command Line<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: bash; title: Code Block; notranslate\" title=\"Code Block\">php -v<\/pre>\n<p>or<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: bash; title: Code Block; notranslate\" title=\"Code Block\">php -i | grep 'PHP Version'<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s very simple to check PHP version 1. PHP Info You can use the following to yield PHP version number via Command Line php -i or You can create a php file contain the following, upload it to your website phpinfo(); Note: if your sys admin disabled phpinfo, you cannot check what PHP version with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":64,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,10,39],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-centos","tag-centos-2","tag-linux","tag-php"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pixert.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/php.gif?fit=120%2C67&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1pvi1-R","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":62,"url":"https:\/\/pixert.com\/blog\/how-to-disable-phpinfo\/","url_meta":{"origin":53,"position":0},"title":"How to disable phpinfo","author":"Pixel Insert \/ Pixert","date":"March 22, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"The phpinfo() function is a very powerful one, \u00a0you can learn quite a lot about your PHP installation.\u00a0Some server administrators may choose to disable the PHP function phpinfo() for security reasons, because it displays information which can be used to compromise the server that your site is running on. 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