This little script can perhaps help you understand version comparison a little better - the output is displayed in the comment at the top. Tweak the list of versions if you need more examples...
<?php
header('Content-type: text/plain');
$versions = array(
'1',
'1.0',
'1.01',
'1.1',
'1.10',
'1.10b',
'1.10.0',
);
$comps = array(
-1 => 'lt',
0 => 'eq',
1 => 'gt'
);
foreach ($versions as $version) {
if (isset($last)) {
$comp = version_compare($last, $version);
echo str_pad($last,8,' ',STR_PAD_LEFT) . " {$comps[$comp]} {$version}\n";
}
$last = $version;
}
?>
