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Created January 26, 2014 14:25
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This function will give you the last stable version of WordPress. It fetches the home page of wordpress.org and return the version number from the download buttons. Curl is required.
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get_wordpress_last_version_number.php
function get_wordpress_last_version_number() {
$link = `curl http://wordpress.org | grep '<a class="button download-button button-large"'`;
preg_match_all("/\<a.*href=\"(.*?)\".*?\>(.*)\<\/a\>+/", $link, $matches, PREG_SET_ORDER);
$last_version = str_replace("Download&nbsp;WordPress&nbsp;", '', $matches[0][2]);
return $last_version;
}
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