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PHP and MySQL

by Rheinwerk Publishing, Inc, Christian Wenz, Tobias Hauser
April 2026
Intermediate
1009 pages
34h 15m
English
Packt Publishing
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37.2    Application Examples

In this chapter, we will skip the introductory explanations and go straight to the application examples. The reason: The only common denominator of PHP's Apache functions is that they only work with the Apache module version of PHP. However, each of these functions fulfills a specific purpose, from which the application examples are derived.

37.2.1    Information about Apache

First, it’s possible to find information about the Apache installation using PHP itself. This may be relevant for hosts, for example, who provide their customers with little information about the configuration of the web server.

Two functions are particularly interesting here:

  • apache_get_modules() returns a list of all installed Apache modules ...

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