There are several ways to check Laravel versions and they are through
- command line
- programmatically from code
- composer.json file
- helper methods
Method 1: Laravel Check Version from Command Line
To check version from the command line you can use the command below.
php artisan --version
or the slightly shorter is:
php artisan -v
Method 2: Laravel Check Version Programmatically from code
To check the version from Laravel code you can define your code below. Create a route in web.php and then call the "app()->version()" helper.
<?php
Route::get('get-laravel-version', function () {
app()->version();
});
Method 3: Laravel Check Version Via Composer.json
The 3rd method is to check from the composer.json file itself, you can inspect the Laravel version.
Method 4: Laravel Check Version Via Helper methods
This is like the 2nd method but you can easily call it from within the tinker command.
php artisan tinker
Then from the interactive shell, you can run the helper below.
app()->version()
