Website Version PHP - php

Question

I am trying to create a version file that will alert the end user if there is an update.
In theory and practical application:
When the admin logs in and goes to their Management interface, a script reads a remote file and compares the remote version with the local version, if they are the same, report that status, if remote is greater, alert.
The local version is pulled from a MySQL table with MySQLi and confirmed to work, the remote file is read, confirmed to work as well how ever I am running into an issue.
Local version is 1.3, remote version is 1.3 yet it reports:
Your Version - 1.3 is OUT OF DATE, new version 1.3 is available for download
When it should say
Your Version is UP TO DATE!
The code I am using is below
require_once('includes/settings.php');
function check_version() {
global $connection;
$query = "SELECT * from version";
$result = mysqli_query($connection, $query);
// if the query fails, die and report
if(!$result = $connection->query($query)){
die('There was an error running the query [' . $connection->error . ']');
}
else {
$row = mysqli_fetch_assoc($result);
$my_version = $row['minor'];
echo '<p>Local = '.$my_version.'</p>';
$ctx = stream_context_create(array(
'http' => array(
'timeout' => 1
)
));
$rversion = file_get_contents("http://www.twedev.com/projects/microcms/version", 0, $ctx);
echo $rversion;
var_dump($rversion);
if ($my_version === $rversion) {
$dev_msg = '<strong>Your Micro CMS Version - '.$my_version.' is CURRENT</strong>';
}
elseif ($my_version != $rversion) {
$dev_msg = '<strong>Your Micro CMS Version - '.$my_version.' is OUT OF DATE,<br> new version '.$rversion.' is available for download</strong>';
}
else {
$dev_msg = '<strong>Something went wrong with the version server</strong>';
}
}
return $dev_msg;
}
?>
What I need is another set of eyes to look through this is point me in the right direction if possible, this has me overly frustrated today.

Answer 1

You are using the === identical operator to compare values, using that instead of == will compare the value and the type of value.
The value you are getting from file_get_contents() it's a string, and the version number seems to be something different to string, probably a float number.
Update: After using var_dump on both vars we could see the result wasn't the same, and the solution was to use trim to strip whitespaces from the end of the string.