On 26 Nov 2011, at 00:24, Stuart Dallas wrote:
> On 26 Nov 2011, at 00:14, Andreas wrote:
>> Hi,
>> how could I identify the server the script runs on?
>>
>> I've got a testserver on Windows and a remote system on Linux that need a couple of different settings like IP and port of db-server or folder to store logfiles.
>>
>> I'd like to do something like:
>>
>> if ( $_SERVER['some_key'] = 'my_test_box' ) {
>> $db_host = '1.1.1.1';
>> $db_port = 1234;
>> } else {
>> $db_host = '2.2.2.2';
>> $db_port = 4321;
>> }
>>
>>
>> I looked into phpinfo() but haven't found anything helpful, yet.
>> Have I overlooked something or is there another way to identify the server?
>
> This should work on most Linux variants, so long as the hostname command exists and the PHP process has permission to execute it.
>
> function getServerHostname($full = false)
> {
> $retval = `hostname`;
> if (!$full) {
> $retval = array_shift(explode('.', $retval));
> }
> return $retval;
> }
I should add that it would be better to put the server hostname into the environment in which PHP runs. That way it will be available via the $_ENV superglobal and fetching it will not cost a process execution. How you would do this depends on how you are running PHP.
-Stuart
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