[TYPO3-core] phpversion() vs PHP_VERSION

[Michael Stucki]

Hi Karsten,

> On Friday 02 June 2006 15:43, Martin Kutschker wrote:
> > Which one to use? We use both methods in the Core. Is one of them
> > preferred or has a (dis)advantage over the other?
>
> Accessing a cosntant should be faster than calling a function, so I'd vote
> for PHP_VERSION.
>
> Ic checked with the manual, and both are available in all PHP versions, it
> seems.

I think Bernhard once made a little performance test and found out that the 
constants are slower if they are first checked through isset(). However, in 
these cases we can just depend on those to be set, so the check is not 
needed.

Regards, michael
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