README

A simple package for discovering information about an execution environment and platform. Generic name, generic purpose.

Note that this package is a work-in-progress. See Contributing below if you want to help out.

Overview

The purpose of this package is to provide a simple interface for discovering information about a execution environment, like what operating system is installed, number of processors, or what PHP interpreter is being used. I created this because there wasn't something that already existed for PHP.

Installation

Install with Composer, obviously:

$ composer require coderstephen/environ

Usage

Extremely simple usage; there are a few stateless classes that provide static methods for querying the system. Below is a very simple example:

use Environ\Platform;

printf("CPU architecture: %s\n", Platform::getArch());
printf("Number of CPU cores: %d\n", Platform::getCpuCount());
printf("Operating system: %s\n", Platform::getOSName());
printf("Linux distro: %s\n", Platform::linuxDistribution());

You can also test some of the results environ gives for your current environment with a provided script:

$ vendor/bin/environ-info

-- Platform --
Machine name         : myboss-laptop
Operating system     : Linux
OS release           : 3.19.0-23-generic
OS version           : #24-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jul 7 18:52:55 UTC 2015
CPU architecture     : x86_64
64-bit               : yes
Number of processors : 8

-- Linux distribution --
name                 : ubuntu
release              : 15.04
codename             : vivid
pretty_name          : Ubuntu 15.04

-- Runtime --
Interpreter binary   : /usr/bin/php5
Version              : 5.6.4-4ubuntu6.2
64-bit               : yes
Thread safe          : no
HHVM                 : no
JPHP                 : no
Server module        : no

Reference

You can view a very detailed reference online here.

Contributing

Want to contribute? The best way to contribute is to test the code on a wide array of systems with varying setups and to verify the results are as expected. If they aren't, just create a new issue here on GitHub and we will fix it. If you are adventurous, feel free to fork, patch & submit a pull request that fixes the issue as well.

Where to get help

Need help? Just send me an email with your questions. Be sure to add "environ" to the message subject line so I know how I can help you out.

License

This library is licensed under the MIT license. See the LICENSE file for details.