Get Version of exe via PHP

Question

Is getting the version of a exe possible with php? I\'d like to print the version of a file that can be downloaded...

Windows exe and php is running on linux server<

Answer 1

I recently moved our hosting from Windows to Linux. This was quite easy to do with VBScript given the Microsoft objects, but on Linux and PHP I couldn't find anything. We wrote this function in PHP to scan the .exe file and extract the "Product Version" that a VB.Net application had in it. You can change the $key to be whatever string you can find that has the version info and a null terminator.

Note that this scans the files in 64k chunks looking for the $key string. If you have a large .exe, it may take a few seconds. My .exe is 52k so it is nearly instant. If you have a larger exe, you can change the scan.