Better way for PHP version Errors?

[ddavisgraphics]

I didn't realize a dependency was causing PHP to update which in turn affected engineAPI.

Is there a way to set an error that checks to see what version of PHP is installed into engine, and then fire off a warning to specifically wrong php version.

possible to do something like this ??

$currentPHP = phpversion();
$versionNumber = "5.3.3";
if($currentPHP != $versionNumber){
throw new Exception('PHP Version Error - ' .$versionNumber);
}

[MichaelRBond]

I know engine api works with 5.3.x, i'm pretty sure it doesn't work with 5.4 as is. it wouldn't take too much to make it compatible with both.

i think the there are a couple places that still pass by reference, which, iirc, isn't supported in 5.4