I was hoping someone could take a couple minutes to post some code for me.

I need to compare two text files versions, one on the local server and one on a remote server.

Here would be the locations of both:

Local: /lib/version.txt
Remote: hxxp://mysite.com/version.txt

Basically, basically in /lib/version.txt I would just enter "1.1.0" and then if I updated the remote file's text to "1.2.0" then there would be a message showing up in people's control panel that said something like:

Click here! There is a new update!

version_compare: http://www.php.net/manual/en/functio...on-compare.php
and file_get_contents: http://www.php.net/manual/en/functio...t-contents.php

PHP Code:

$local_file = '/lib/version.txt';
$remote_file = 'http://mysite.com/version.txt';

$current_version = file_get_contents($local_file);
$latest_version = file_get_contents($remote_file);

if(version_compare($current_version, $latest_version) === -1)
{
     //newer version available
}