How to get the OS on which PHP is running?

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For building a unix/dos specific script I need to know on which kind of operating system I am.

How do i get this information?
phpinfo(); tells me a lot more and not very clear whether I'm running on unix or not.

operating-system php
10 Answers
#!/usr/bin/env php
<?php
$platform = DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR === '\\'
    ? 'Windows'
    : 'Unix/Linux';

I am aware that this is not very granular, but it may suffice for a simple recognition between Win and *nix systems. YMMV

user_29154230

Here what i am using

switch (strtolower(php_uname('s'))) {
    case "linux": echo "Server is running on linux OS"
        break;
    case "windows nt": echo "Server is running on Windows OS"
        break;
    default:
        echo "Unknown";
        break;
}

We can also use PHP_OS but this is not accurate as documentation says The operating system PHP was built for

so php_uname('s') is good approach.

However PhpStrom 2020.2 IDE suggests [EA] PHP_OS constant should be used instead.

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$user_agent     =   $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'];
function getOS() { 

    global $user_agent;

    $os_platform    =   "Unknown OS Platform";

    $os_array       =   array(
                            '/windows nt 6.2/i'     =>  'Windows 8',
                            '/windows nt 6.1/i'     =>  'Windows 7',
                            '/windows nt 6.0/i'     =>  'Windows Vista',
                            '/windows nt 5.2/i'     =>  'Windows Server 2003/XP x64',
                            '/windows nt 5.1/i'     =>  'Windows XP',
                            '/windows xp/i'         =>  'Windows XP',
                            '/windows nt 5.0/i'     =>  'Windows 2000',
                            '/windows me/i'         =>  'Windows ME',
                            '/win98/i'              =>  'Windows 98',
                            '/win95/i'              =>  'Windows 95',
                            '/win16/i'              =>  'Windows 3.11',
                            '/macintosh|mac os x/i' =>  'Mac OS X',
                            '/mac_powerpc/i'        =>  'Mac OS 9',
                            '/linux/i'              =>  'Linux',
                            '/ubuntu/i'             =>  'Ubuntu',
                            '/iphone/i'             =>  'iPhone',
                            '/ipod/i'               =>  'iPod',
                            '/ipad/i'               =>  'iPad',
                            '/android/i'            =>  'Android',
                            '/blackberry/i'         =>  'BlackBerry',
                            '/webos/i'              =>  'Mobile'
                        );

    foreach ($os_array as $regex => $value) { 

        if (preg_match($regex, $user_agent)) {
            $os_platform    =   $value;
        }

    }   

    return $os_platform;

}

$user_os  =   getOS();


$device_details =   "<strong>Operating System: </strong>".$user_os."";

print_r($device_details);
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