id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc
10529	API to retrieve current WordPress version	stephanreiter		"Sometimes it's necessary in plug-ins to check whether a certain functionality or behavior is supported by the current WP version or not. For this purpose I currently use the following code in the Scissors plugin:

{{{
function _minimalWpVersion($major, $minor) {
  global $wp_version;
  $version = preg_replace(""/[^\\.0-9\s]/"", """", $wp_version); // keep only '0' .. '9' and '.'
  $version = explode('.', $version);
  return (count($version) >= 2 && ($version[0] > $major || $version[0] == $major && $version[1] >= $minor));
}
}}}

I would love to see the introduction of an API that allows plug-in authors to easily query the current version of WordPress and get a result in the form of an array('major' => 2, 'minor' => 8, 'revision' => 2) (to give an example). This would eliminate potential problems when the format of the version-string changed."	enhancement	closed	normal		Plugins		minor	wontfix	close version query