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PHP CompatInfo is a library that can find the minimum version and the extensions required for a piece of code to run.

Running on PHP greater than 7.1 for parsing source code in a format PHP 5.2 to PHP 7.4

Requirements

• PHP 7.1.3 or greater
• PHPUnit 7 or greater (if you want to run unit tests)

Installation

The recommended way to install this library is through composer. If you don't know yet what is composer, have a look on introduction.

composer require bartlett/php-compatinfo

Build PHAR distribution

Since release 5.4.2 building of phar version of application is part of composer automated process.

Either when you install or update project with Composer, the bin/phpcompatinfo.phar file will be built.

NOTE

• You may avoid this by invoking composer command with --no-scripts option.
• You may also rebuild the phar file by invoking composer compile-box command (shortcut of run, run-script).

Documentation

Full documentation is written in MarkDown format, and HTML export is possible with Daux.io. See output results at http://bartlett.laurent-laville.org/php-compatinfo/ or raw *.md files in docs folder.

Table of Contents

• Features

  • Parse source code in format PHP 5.2 to PHP 7.4
  • Detect PHP features for each Major/minor versions
  • Detect versions of all directives, constants, functions, classes, interfaces of 100 extensions and more
  • Display/Inspect list of extensions, and their versions supported

• Components

  • PHP-Parser Node Visitors
  • Profiler
  • Collection of Sniffs

• Configurations

  • Use of PSR11 containers to configure application services.

Contributors

• Laurent Laville (Lead Dev)
• Thanks to Nikita Popov who wrote a marvellous PHP Parser.
• Thanks also to Remi Collet, a contributor of first hours.
• Credits to Davey Shafik. He introduced his proposal in 2004, that gave birth of a PEAR package named PHP_CompatInfo.

License

This project is licensed under the BSD-3-Clause License - see the LICENSE file for details