By: Douglas Karr

Douglas Karr — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 13:21:06 +0000

Get that donut button up, Nick! You’re a livesaver! What’s funny is that (minus the strtolower), I actually did have my sample code running and utilizing the right evaluation. It must have been late because by the time I put it in, I messed it up!

I’ve modified the code and the blog post. Question: Any advantage of one over the other? I guess the extension_loaded is a much cleaner and quicker way of dealing with this!

Thanks Nick!

By: Nick Halstead

Nick Halstead — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 06:30:59 +0000

Hi Doug,

I did notice a one bug which probably doesn’t raise an error.

if ($value = “SimpleXML”) { $result = true; }

should be

if ($value == “SimpleXML”) { $result = true; }

Although for safety sake. I prefer.

if (strtolower($value) == “simplexml”) { $result = true; }

You could also use ‘extension_loaded’ which takes the extension name to check (case sensitive).

$loaded = extension_loaded(”SimpleXML”);

Returns TRUE or FALSE.

P.S. Don’t drink coffee myself but I may put a ‘buy me a box of donuts’ button

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