`phpversion()` return value and `PHP_VERSION` constant value are identical, but the latter is several times faster because it is a direct constant value lookup compared to a function call.
Props ayeshrajans, jrf, mukesh27, costdev, hellofromTonya, SergeyBiryukov.
Fixes#55680.
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