Link to code Gist.
Easy peasy snippet:
Place this on your controller
// Get current version
$currentVersion = \CodeIgniter\CodeIgniter::CI_VERSION;
// Get latest version from GitHub API
$latestVersion = null;
$context = stream_context_create(['http' => ['user_agent' => 'CI-Version-Checker']]);
$json = @file_get_contents('https://api.github.com/repos/codeigniter4/CodeIgniter4/releases/latest', false, $context);
if ($json) {
$data = json_decode($json, true);
if (isset($data['tag_name'])) {
$latestVersion = ltrim($data['tag_name'], 'v');
}
}
Place this on your view
<div class="container">
<div class="row">
<div class="col-md-12 text-center">
CI version in use: <strong><?= esc($ciVersion) ?></strong>
<?php if ($latestVersion): ?>
| Latest CI release: <strong><?= esc($latestVersion) ?></strong>
<?php endif; ?>
</div>
</div>
</div>
Are you concerned that a request to GH on each user request is not the best? You are smart. Modify this to run a command with cron every day/ week/ whatever to check this on the background and update a file or db entry with the updated value.
Amazing. Beautiful. Meaningful. Rejoice.
