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60<p>CodeIgniter uses a few functions for its operation that are globally defined, and are available to you at any point. These do not require loading any libraries or helpers.</p>
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Derek Jones086ee5a2009-07-28 14:42:12 +0000[diff] [blame]62<h2>is_php('<var>version_number</var>')</h2>
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64<p>is_php() determines of the PHP version being used is greater than the supplied <var>version_number</var>.</p>
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66<code>if (is_php('5.3.0'))<br />
67{<br />
68&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;$str = quoted_printable_encode($str);<br />
69}</code>
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71<p>Returns boolean <kbd>TRUE</kbd> if the installed version of PHP is equal to or greater than the supplied version number. Returns <kbd>FALSE</kbd> if the installed version of PHP is lower than the supplied version number.</p>
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Derek Allard2067d1a2008-11-13 22:59:24 +0000[diff] [blame]76<p>is_writable() returns TRUE on Windows servers when you really can't write to the file as the OS reports to PHP as FALSE only if the read-only attribute is marked. This function determines if a file is actually writable by attempting to write to it first. Generally only recommended on platforms where this information may be unreliable.</p>
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Derek Allard2067d1a2008-11-13 22:59:24 +0000[diff] [blame]78<code>if (is_really_writable('file.txt'))<br />
79{<br />
80&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;echo &quot;I could write to this if I wanted to&quot;;<br />
81}<br />
82else<br />
83{<br />
84&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;echo &quot;File is not writable&quot;;<br />
85}</code>
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Derek Allard2067d1a2008-11-13 22:59:24 +0000[diff] [blame]87<h2>config_item('<var>item_key</var>')</h2>
88<p>The <a href="../libraries/config.html">Config library</a> is the preferred way of accessing configuration information, however config_item() can be used to retrieve single keys. See Config library documentation for more information.</p>
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Derek Allard2067d1a2008-11-13 22:59:24 +0000[diff] [blame]90<h2>show_error('<var>message</var>'), show_404('<var>page</var>'), log_message('<var>level</var>', '<samp>message</samp>')</h2>
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93<h2>set_status_header(<var>code</var>, '<var>text</var>');</h2>
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95<p>Permits you to manually set a server status header. Example:</p>
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97<code>set_status_header(401);<br />
98// Sets the header as: Unauthorized</code>
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100<p><a href="http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html">See here</a> for a full list of headers.</p>
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