Posted by Schroeder, AJ on 07/03/07 14:23

Hello group,

I have a few PHP scripts that poll switches and routers via SNMP. Depending
on the user, the scripts can be run from either Windows XP or *ix (FreeBSD,
Redhat, etc)

I am beginning to implement syslog() and openlog() in my scripts and there
are some suddle differences in how PHP logs to event viewer in Windows and
syslog in everything else. About the most reliable method I have found in
detecting Windows is a simple check to see if $_SERVER['OS'] is defined,
which returns "Windows_NT". On Redhat it doesn't come back as defined at
all, so that makes the code easy.

I'm sure I am not the first one to attempt this, can anyone else share their
experiences with this and maybe offer a better way other than checking for a
predefined constant?

Thanks,

AJ Schroeder

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