Introduction
Hosting providers are traditionally slow to adopt new PHP versions on their servers. The consequence of this is that many different PHP versions exist on the web at the same time.
If you are implementing new features, installing a new PHP-based app, or trying to locate a bug on your website, it is important to know which PHP version your web server is running.
In this tutorial, you will learn how to check your PHP version by running PHP code on your server or using the command line.
Prerequisites
- PHP installed
- Write access to the server’s file system
- Access to the command line
Check PHP Version by Running PHP Code
The simplest method to determine the PHP version running on your website is executing a PHP file that contains the following code: