Check the Kirby license programmatically?

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Hi community,

For a customer of mine, I’m developping a website using Kirby. It’s way to early to publish the website as a whole, but the customer wishes to deploy a part of it asap.

Up to now, I’m deploying to a development server of mine. In order to adhere to the license conditions, there is no free access to that development installation. Rather, even a bare visitor of this website has to login. Without knowing the credentials, no one from the public can use that website, so I guess that would be ok for Kirby.

Now I’m confronted with the need for the following: The (partial) webpage will be deployed to the customer’s final production server. So its perfectly ok to purchase a license for that server. But the development will carry on, and that will not be on the production server. How can I programmatically check whether I’m on the production server (with a license) or on the development server? I need this decision in order to avoid the login procedure for website visitors.

Maybe I could make use of the GET: /api/system mechanism which I found in the docs. But I have no clue how to make that work in the startup procedure. Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance.

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You can check the domain where the installation is running. What sort of login procedure are you using?

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Yes, sure, I could test for the production server name, which only would require another configuration element.

Thank you, your ideas are simple yet powerful.

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If you do want to check for an active Kirby license, you can use the following code:

$isActivated = kirby()->system()->license() !== false;
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This is the perfect solution I was after. Thank you, @lukasbestle