PHP 8.1 is showing PHP Version 8.0.9

@Sinnbeck running php -v shows:

PHP 8.1.0 (cli) (built: Nov 23 2021 21:48:28) (ZTS Visual C++ 2019 x64)
Copyright (c) The PHP Group
Zend Engine v4.1.0, Copyright (c) Zend Technologies

But wouldn't the phpinfo(); be the one to go by for web? I know cli can be different version.

@jlrdw yup. Just figured it would be good to check if the update actually went through. What webserver are you running? Might need a restart

@Sinnbeck nginx, it was off when I extracted the newer php zip file. Is the phpinfo() suppose to be accurate?

I stopped all and restarted all, but same results.

@jlrdw yeah it should. But maybe you have both versions installed. At least on Linux that's possible. There i would change nginx to point fpm to the correct php sock

@jlrdw Have you updated the fast-cgi to php 8.1 as well?

@Sinnbeck all is setup correct. 8.1 is too new to get many web answers, like stackoverflow.

All I did was literally extract the zip archive, copied the development ini file to php.ini, and uncommented needed extensions, same way I always do.

Like I said everything is working fine, it's just showing that older version.

@jlrdw weird. Linux I would open the nginx site conf file and change this line. But windows is probably different

fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php8. 0-fpm.sock

@Sinnbeck Windows doesn't have a php-fpm it utilizes the php-cgi instead.

This post is a bit outdated but likely still valid

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4539670/php-fpm-for-windows

@Sinnbeck @tray2 in windows its:

        location ~ \.php$ {
            include "fastcgi.conf";
            
            root           www;
            fastcgi_pass   127.0.0.1:9000;
            fastcgi_index  index.php;
            fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME  $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
            include        fastcgi_params;
        }
    }

And to start cgi it's:

php-cgi.exe -b 127.0.0.1:9000 -c /php/php.ini

The previous version showed correctly.

Edit

@tray2 the link you gave guided me, silly me I forgot to un-comment the ext folder.

@sinnbeck thanks for your replies also, appreciated. phpinfo now shows correct.