>From the comments in the documentation, it seems others are having the same problem with version_compare() that I was running into:
http://us2.php.net/version_compare Look at all those code-samples and "extensions" to the function - I found it very odd that the documentation does not explain how an "empty" version-number is interpreted compared to the strings and numbers, which are clearly defined and explained. For example, I was not the only one who found it odd that "1.0" is considered less than "1.0.0" - wouldn't it make sense to "pad" the shortest version-number with zeroes? e.g. "1.0" if compared against "1.0.0" would be padded with zeroes at the end, e.g. as "1.0.0". Of course that would break backwards compatibility, which kind of defeats the purpose of having a standardized version-number comparison standard. But as you can see, people aren't using the function as-is anyway - they're writing their own... - Rasmus Schultz
