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16. March 2004

Just no win-win situation
PHP (wiki) | Apple (wiki) | Linux (wiki) - urs @ 21:24:46

Yesterday I moved a PHP project from Windows to OS X. For reasons of laziness I often code something like:

if (stristr(PHP_OS, "WIN")) {
echo "Do something Windows-related here...";
}

This worked usually perfect for scripts moved between Windows and Linux based systems. But one has to be more precise for scripts to run additionally on OS X. Since OS X comes with a PHP_OS string consisting of "Darwin". If you are wondering, why your scripts do not work on Mac try this:

if (stristr(PHP_OS, "Windows")) {
echo "Do something Windows-related here...";
}

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Comment by funkablog » What Felix said about assuming… @ 2004-03-17 04:46:39:

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[...] of server or client detection by checking for a short string anywhere in the fingerprint. This is a good example of why. Comments (0) Comments RSS feed for comments on this post. [...]

Comment by funkablog @ 2004-03-17 04:47:12:

What Felix said about assuming...
It always seemed like a bad idea to do some kind of server or client detection by checking for a short string anywhere in the fingerprint. This is a good example of why.

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