Introducing Fire: Similar to Cake’s Bake and RoR’s script/generate

[eluser]Michael Wales[/eluser]
From the PHP documentation:

php_uname() will return the OS of the system currently running PHP.
The constant PHP_OS will return the OS that did the build of PHP being run.

There is some debate as to whether or not PHP_OS returns the build machine or does in fact return a cleaner string representing the OS currently running PHP.

I just did a test on this machine (WinXP, Service Pack 2) and the return was:

Windows NT (computer name) 5.1 build 2600
WINNT

for the following code:

Code:

<?php
  echo php_uname() . "\n";
  echo PHP_OS;
?>

I seriously doubt Zend is building PHP on Windows boxes, so I'd say the PHP_OS constant is a pretty good choice.