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Here is another improved version of my own code on comment #89387.
This code supports: minor versions, version comparison, operating systems, checking or return browser data and more browsers like Chrome, Flock, Thunderbird Mail Client, Wget and others. Also can handle browser detection of cellphones, basic spiders and games consoles!
Note: Since detection is based on useragent sent by browser, not all browsers will give the same information, for example what os are you using...
This project is hosted with examples on Google Code at http://code.google.com/p/xbd/
(Full code is too long to post it here, I get the error message...)
get_browser
(PHP 4, PHP 5)
get_browser — Ermittelt die Fähigkeiten des Browsers eines Benutzers
Beschreibung
Diese Funktion versucht die Fähigkeiten des Browsers des Benutzers zu ermitteln, indem sie die Informationen über den Browser aus der Datei browscap.ini ausliest.
Parameter-Liste
- user_agent
-
Der User-Agent, der analysiert werden soll. Per Voreinstellung wird der Wert des HTTP User-Agent-Headers verwendet, jedoch können Sie das ändern, d.h. Informationen über einen anderen Browser nachschlagen, indem Sie diesen Parameter übegeben.
Dieser Parameter kann mit einem NULL-Wert umgangen werden.
- return_array
-
Falls dieser Parameter auf TRUE gesetzt wird, gibt die Funktion statt eines Objekts ein Array zurück.
Rückgabewerte
Die Informationen werden in einem Objekt oder Array zurückgegeben, das verschiedene Datenelemente enthält. Dazu gehören z.B. die Haupt- und Unterversions-Nummer und Kennung des Browsers sowie TRUE/FALSE-Werte für dessen Fähigkeiten, wie z.B. Frames, JavaScript, Cookies usw.
Der Wert von cookies sagt nur etwas darüber aus, ob der Browser an sich in der Lage ist Cookies anzunehmen, und nicht darüber, ob der Benutzer die Annahme von Cookies aktiviert hat. Die einzige Möglichkeit zu testen, ob Cookies akzeptiert werden, besteht darin, mittels setcookie() ein Cookie zu setzen, die Seite neu zu laden und dessen Wert zu überprüfen.
Changelog
| Version | Beschreibung |
|---|---|
| 4.3.2 | Der optionale Parameter return_array wurde hinzugefügt. |
Beispiele
Beispiel #1 Auflistung aller Informationen über den Browser des Benutzers
<?php
echo $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'] . "\n\n";
$browser = get_browser(null, true);
print_r($browser);
?>
Das oben gezeigte Beispiel erzeugt eine ähnliche Ausgabe wie:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3
Array
(
[browser_name_regex] => ^mozilla/5\.0 (windows; .; windows nt 5\.1; .*rv:.*) gecko/.* firefox/0\.9.*$
[browser_name_pattern] => Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; ?; Windows NT 5.1; *rv:*) Gecko/* Firefox/0.9*
[parent] => Firefox 0.9
[platform] => WinXP
[browser] => Firefox
[version] => 0.9
[majorver] => 0
[minorver] => 9
[cssversion] => 2
[frames] => 1
[iframes] => 1
[tables] => 1
[cookies] => 1
[backgroundsounds] =>
[vbscript] =>
[javascript] => 1
[javaapplets] => 1
[activexcontrols] =>
[cdf] =>
[aol] =>
[beta] => 1
[win16] =>
[crawler] =>
[stripper] =>
[wap] =>
[netclr] =>
)
Anmerkungen
Hinweis: Damit es richtig funktioniert, muss die browscap-Einstellung Ihrer php.ini auf die richtige browscap.ini-Datei Ihres Systems zeigen.
browscap.ini ist nicht Bestandteil von PHP, aber eine aktuelle » php_browscap.ini bekommen Sie hier.
Da die browscap.ini Informationen zu vielen Browsern enthält, obliegt es dem Skript-Schreiber, diese Datei auf dem Laufenden zu halten. Das Format dieser Datei sollte selbsterklärend sein.
add a note
User Contributed Notesget_browser
ceo /a/ mmg5 /./ com
12-Nov-2009 02:40
12-Nov-2009 02:40
Anonymous
10-Aug-2009 07:20
10-Aug-2009 07:20
Browser and Version look like they need ?P<name>
i.e.
$pattern = '#(?P<browser>' . join('|', $known) . ')[/ ]+(?P<version>[0-9]+(?:\.[0-9]+)?)#';
robert at broofa dot com
18-Jul-2009 08:33
18-Jul-2009 08:33
If you're just finding this API, note that you may want to use a lighter-weight
browser detection script. get_browser() requires the "browscap.ini" file,
which is 300KB+. Loading and processing this file will likely impact script
performance. Although it surely provides excellent detection results, in most
cases a much simpler method can be just as effective. This is why so many
previous commenters have provided alternate implementations.
Here's the solution I ended up using, which I've tested on the agents listed at
http://whatsmyuseragent.com/CommonUserAgents.asp It has the advantage of being
compact and reasonably easy to extend (just add entries to the $known array
defined at the top). It should be fairly performant as well, since it doesn't
do any iteratoin or recursion.
<?php
function browser_info($agent=null) {
// Declare known browsers to look for
$known = array('msie', 'firefox', 'safari', 'webkit', 'opera', 'netscape',
'konqueror', 'gecko');
// Clean up agent and build regex that matches phrases for known browsers
// (e.g. "Firefox/2.0" or "MSIE 6.0" (This only matches the major and minor
// version numbers. E.g. "2.0.0.6" is parsed as simply "2.0"
$agent = strtolower($agent ? $agent : $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']);
$pattern = '#(?<browser>' . join('|', $known) .
')[/ ]+(?<version>[0-9]+(?:\.[0-9]+)?)#';
// Find all phrases (or return empty array if none found)
if (!preg_match_all($pattern, $agent, $matches)) return array();
// Since some UAs have more than one phrase (e.g Firefox has a Gecko phrase,
// Opera 7,8 have a MSIE phrase), use the last one found (the right-most one
// in the UA). That's usually the most correct.
$i = count($matches['browser'])-1;
return array($matches['browser'][$i] => $matches['version'][$i]);
}
?>
This returns an array with the detected browser as the key, and the version as
the value, and also sets 'browser' and 'version' keys. For example on Firefox
3.5:
<?php
$ua = browser_info();
print_r($ua);
/* Yields ...
Array
(
[firefox] => 3.5
[browser] => firefox
[version] => 3.5
)
*/
// Various browser tests you can do with the returned array ...
if ($ua['firefox']) ... // true
if ($ua['firefox'] > 3) ... // true
if ($ua['firefox'] > 4) ... // false
if ($ua['browser'] == 'firefox') ... // true
if ($ua['version'] > 3.5) ... // true
if ($ua['msie']) ... // false ('msie' key not defined)
if ($ua['opera'] > 3) ... // false ('opera' key not defined)
if ($ua['safari'] < 3) ... // false also ('safari' key not defined)
?>
Steve Perkins
21-Jun-2009 11:11
21-Jun-2009 11:11
This is a simple class to detect the client browser and version using regular expressions.
<?PHP
class Browser
{
private $props = array("Version" => "0.0.0",
"Name" => "unknown",
"Agent" => "unknown") ;
public function __Construct()
{
$browsers = array("firefox", "msie", "opera", "chrome", "safari",
"mozilla", "seamonkey", "konqueror", "netscape",
"gecko", "navigator", "mosaic", "lynx", "amaya",
"omniweb", "avant", "camino", "flock", "aol");
$this->Agent = strtolower($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']);
foreach($browsers as $browser)
{
if (preg_match("#($browser)[/ ]?([0-9.]*)#", $this->Agent, $match))
{
$this->Name = $match[1] ;
$this->Version = $match[2] ;
break ;
}
}
}
public function __Get($name)
{
if (!array_key_exists($name, $this->props))
{
die "No such property or function $name)" ;
}
return $this->props[$name] ;
}
public function __Set($name, $val)
{
if (!array_key_exists($name, $this->props))
{
SimpleError("No such property or function.", "Failed to set $name", $this->props) ;
die ;
}
$this->props[$name] = $val ;
}
}
?>
example code
<?PHP
$browser = new Browser ;
echo "$Browser->Name $Browser->Version" ;
?>
result when client using Firefox 3.0.11
firefox 3.0.11
result when client using unknown browser
unknown 0.0.0
etc etc
Steve Perkins
21-Jun-2009 04:42
21-Jun-2009 04:42
This is a simple class to detect the client browser and version using regular expressions.
<?PHP
class Browser extends BaseObjects_PropertyArray
{
private $props = array("Version" => "0.0.0",
"Name" => "unknown",
"Agent" => "unknown",
"AllowsHeaderRedirect" => true) ;
public function __Construct()
{
$browsers = array("firefox", "msie", "opera", "chrome", "safari",
"mozilla", "seamonkey", "konqueror", "netscape",
"gecko", "navigator", "mosaic", "lynx", "amaya",
"omniweb", "avant", "camino", "flock", "aol");
$this->Agent = strtolower($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']);
foreach($browsers as $browser)
{
if (preg_match("#($browser)[/ ]?([0-9.]*)#", $this->Agent, $match))
{
$this->Name = $match[1] ;
$this->Version = $match[2] ;
break ;
}
}
$this->AllowsHeaderRedirect = !($this->Name == "msie" && $this->Version < 7) ;
}
public function __Get($name)
{
if (!array_key_exists($name, $this->props))
{
die "No such property or function $name)" ;
}
return $this->props[$name] ;
}
}
?>
example code
<?PHP
$browser = new Browser ;
echo "$Browser->Name $Browser->Version" ;
?>
result when client using Firefox 3.0.11
firefox 3.0.11
result when client using unknown browser
unknown 0.0.0
etc etc
Mattkun Koder
28-Apr-2009 02:00
28-Apr-2009 02:00
If you want to use: ceo /a/ mmg5 /./ com 's improved version and STILL detect Google Chrome you need to move CHROME earlier on the list Before Safari otherwise it will be detected as safari.
$browser_list = 'msie firefox chrome konqueror safari netscape navigator opera mosaic lynx amaya omniweb avant camino flock seamonkey aol mozilla gecko';
Daniel Frechette
17-Feb-2009 12:40
17-Feb-2009 12:40
A newer version for those only interested in identifying A-grade browsers. The code was ported in part from JQuery 1.3.1.
<?php
class Browser {
/**
Figure out what browser is used, its version and the platform it is
running on.
The following code was ported in part from JQuery v1.3.1
*/
public static function detect() {
$userAgent = strtolower($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']);
// Identify the browser. Check Opera and Safari first in case of spoof. Let Google Chrome be identified as Safari.
if (preg_match('/opera/', $userAgent)) {
$name = 'opera';
}
elseif (preg_match('/webkit/', $userAgent)) {
$name = 'safari';
}
elseif (preg_match('/msie/', $userAgent)) {
$name = 'msie';
}
elseif (preg_match('/mozilla/', $userAgent) && !preg_match('/compatible/', $userAgent)) {
$name = 'mozilla';
}
else {
$name = 'unrecognized';
}
// What version?
if (preg_match('/.+(?:rv|it|ra|ie)[\/: ]([\d.]+)/', $userAgent, $matches)) {
$version = $matches[1];
}
else {
$version = 'unknown';
}
// Running on what platform?
if (preg_match('/linux/', $userAgent)) {
$platform = 'linux';
}
elseif (preg_match('/macintosh|mac os x/', $userAgent)) {
$platform = 'mac';
}
elseif (preg_match('/windows|win32/', $userAgent)) {
$platform = 'windows';
}
else {
$platform = 'unrecognized';
}
return array(
'name' => $name,
'version' => $version,
'platform' => $platform,
'userAgent' => $userAgent
);
}
}
Usage:
$browser = TkBrowser::detect();
echo 'You browser is '.$browser['name'].' version '.$browser['version'].' running on '.$browser['platform'];
?>
Best regards,
Daniel
assadvirgo at gmail dot com
13-Feb-2009 12:40
13-Feb-2009 12:40
This is a very useful function to get user browser. A great utility function for those are fed up of get_browser() issues :)
<?php
function get_user_browser()
{
$u_agent = $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'];
$ub = '';
if(preg_match('/MSIE/i',$u_agent))
{
$ub = "ie";
}
elseif(preg_match('/Firefox/i',$u_agent))
{
$ub = "firefox";
}
elseif(preg_match('/Safari/i',$u_agent))
{
$ub = "safari";
}
elseif(preg_match('/Chrome/i',$u_agent))
{
$ub = "chrome";
}
elseif(preg_match('/Flock/i',$u_agent))
{
$ub = "flock";
}
elseif(preg_match('/Opera/i',$u_agent))
{
$ub = "opera";
}
return $ub;
}
?>
admin at studio-gepard dot pl
06-Feb-2009 10:57
06-Feb-2009 10:57
Daniel Frechette's code shown me "unrecognized" for way too many browsers so I decided to merge small part of his code with tectonikNOSPAM at free dot fr one. I also removed globals (which I never use), and made a function of it. Detects browser and platform. The input can be true - for array - or false - for simple string output. Tested - works on Win, Mac, and browsers specified.
<?php
function checkBrowser($input) {
$browsers = "mozilla msie gecko firefox ";
$browsers.= "konqueror safari netscape navigator ";
$browsers.= "opera mosaic lynx amaya omniweb";
$browsers = split(" ", $browsers);
$userAgent = strToLower( $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']);
$l = strlen($userAgent);
for ($i=0; $i<count($browsers); $i++){
$browser = $browsers[$i];
$n = stristr($userAgent, $browser);
if(strlen($n)>0){
$version = "";
$navigator = $browser;
$j=strpos($userAgent, $navigator)+$n+strlen($navigator)+1;
for (; $j<=$l; $j++){
$s = substr ($userAgent, $j, 1);
if(is_numeric($version.$s) )
$version .= $s;
else
break;
}
}
}
if (strpos($userAgent, 'linux')) {
$platform = 'linux';
}
else if (strpos($userAgent, 'macintosh') || strpos($userAgent, 'mac platform x')) {
$platform = 'mac';
}
else if (strpos($userAgent, 'windows') || strpos($userAgent, 'win32')) {
$platform = 'windows';
}
if ($input==true) {
return array(
"browser" => $navigator,
"version" => $version,
"platform" => $platform,
"userAgent" => $userAgent);
}else{
return "$navigator $version";
}
}
/* USAGE: */
//array output:
$i = checkBrowser(false);
print_r($i);
//will give:
//Array ( [browser] => firefox [version] => 3.0 [platform] => windows [userAgent] => mozilla/5.0 (windows; u; windows nt 5.1; pl; rv:1.9.0.6) gecko/2009011913 firefox/3.0.6 )
//string output:
echo checkBrowser(true);
//will give: firefox 3.0
?>
Daniel Frechette
13-Nov-2008 09:28
13-Nov-2008 09:28
A newer version. Keep in mind that this function does not replace get_browser. It is just a basic version that only looks for certain browsers: IE, Firefox, Safari, Opera and Chrome. All other browsers are "unrecognised".
<?php
function getBrowserInfo() {
// Note: An excellent article on browser IDs can be found at
// http://www.zytrax.com/tech/web/browser_ids.htm
$SUPERCLASS_NAMES = "gecko,mozilla,mosaic,webkit";
$SUPERCLASS_REGX = "(?:".str_replace(",", ")|(?:", $SUPERCLASS_NAMES).")";
$SUBCLASS_NAMES = "opera,msie,firefox,chrome,safari";
$SUBCLASS_REGX = "(?:".str_replace(",", ")|(?:", $SUBCLASS_NAMES).")";
$browser = "unrecognized";
$majorVersion = "0";
$minorVersion = "0";
$fullVersion = "0.0";
$platform = 'unrecognized';
$userAgent = strtolower($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']);
$found = preg_match("/(?P<browser>".$SUBCLASS_REGX.")(?:\D*)
(?P<majorVersion>\d*)(?P<minorVersion>(?:\.\d*)*)/i",
$userAgent, $matches);
if (!$found) {
$found = preg_match("/(?P<browser>".$SUPERCLASS_REGX.")(?:\D*)
(?P<majorVersion>\d*)(?P<minorVersion>(?:\.\d*)*)/i",
$userAgent, $matches);
}
if ($found) {
$browser = $matches["browser"];
$majorVersion = $matches["majorVersion"];
$minorVersion = $matches["minorVersion"];
$fullVersion = $matches["majorVersion"].$matches["minorVersion"];
if ($browser == "safari") {
if (preg_match("/version\
/(?P<majorVersion>\d*)(?P<minorVersion>(?:\.\d*)*)/i",
$userAgent, $matches)){
$majorVersion = $matches["majorVersion"];
$minorVersion = $matches["minorVersion"];
$fullVersion = $majorVersion.".".$minorVersion;
}
}
}
if (strpos($userAgent, 'linux')) {
$platform = 'linux';
}
else if (strpos($userAgent, 'macintosh') || strpos($userAgent, 'mac platform x')) {
$platform = 'mac';
}
else if (strpos($userAgent, 'windows') || strpos($userAgent, 'win32')) {
$platform = 'windows';
}
return array(
"browser" => $browser,
"majorVersion" => $majorVersion,
"minorVersion" => $minorVersion,
"fullVersion" => $fullVersion,
"platform" => $platform,
"userAgent" => $userAgent);
}
?>
Daniel Frechette
13-Nov-2008 06:41
13-Nov-2008 06:41
The Great God Om, I reformatted your script, made a few enhancements and fixed a few errors.
<?php
function getBrowserInfo() {
$SUPERCLASS_NAMES = "gecko,mozilla,mosaic,webkit";
$SUPERCLASSES_REGX = "(?:".str_replace(",", ")|(?:", $SUPERCLASS_NAMES).")";
$SUBCLASS_NAMES = "opera,msie,firefox,chrome,safari";
$SUBCLASSES_REGX = "(?:".str_replace(",", ")|(?:", $SUBCLASS_NAMES).")";
$browser = "unsupported";
$majorVersion = "0";
$minorVersion = "0";
$fullVersion = "0.0";
$os = 'unsupported';
$userAgent = strtolower($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']);
$found = preg_match("/(?P<browser>".$SUBCLASSES_REGX.")(?:\D*)
(?P<majorVersion>\d*)(?P<minorVersion>(?:\.\d*)*)/i",
$userAgent, $matches);
if (!$found) {
$found = preg_match("/(?P<browser>".$SUPERCLASSES_REGX.")(?:\D*)
(?P<majorVersion>\d*)(?P<minorVersion>(?:\.\d*)*)/i",
$userAgent, $matches);
}
if ($found) {
$browser = $matches["browser"];
$majorVersion = $matches["majorVersion"];
$minorVersion = $matches["minorVersion"];
$fullVersion = $matches["majorVersion"].$matches["minorVersion"];
if ($browser != "safari") {
if (preg_match("/version\/(?P<majorVersion>\d*)
(?P<minorVersion>(?:\.\d*)*)/i",
$userAgent, $matches)){
$majorVersion = $matches["majorVersion"];
$minorVersion = $matches["minorVersion"];
$fullVersion = $majorVersion.".".$minorVersion;
}
}
}
if (strpos($userAgent, 'linux')) {
$os = 'linux';
}
else if (strpos($userAgent, 'macintosh') || strpos($userAgent, 'mac os x')) {
$os = 'mac';
}
else if (strpos($userAgent, 'windows') || strpos($userAgent, 'win32')) {
$os = 'windows';
}
return array(
"browser" => $browser,
"majorVersion" => $majorVersion,
"minorVersion" => $minorVersion,
"fullVersion" => $fullVersion,
"os" => $os);
}
?>
addw at phcomp dot co dot uk
19-Aug-2008 07:59
19-Aug-2008 07:59
For automatic updates of the browser database you can find a script here: http://www.phcomp.co.uk/downloads.php#php
Install and run out of cron.
The Great God Om
05-May-2008 06:23
05-May-2008 06:23
Regexes to extract browser name and version info from a user agent string. If it doesn't find a browser name from the "subclass" list it tries the "superclass" list.
<?
$subclass = "MSIE,Firefox,Konqueror,Safari,Opera,
Netscape,Navigator,Lynx,Amaya,Omniweb";
$superclass = "Gecko,Mozilla,Mosaic,Webkit";
$subclassregex = "(?:" . str_replace(",",")|(?:",$subclass) . ")";
$superclassregex = "(?:" . str_replace(",",")|(?:",$subclass) . ")";
$browser_name = "unrecognized";
$browser_majorversion = 0;
$browser_fullversion = "0.0";
$bsuperclassmatch = FALSE;
$bsubclassmatch = preg_match("/(?<browser>" . $subclassregex . ")(?:\D*)(?<majorversion>\d*)
(?<subversion>(?:\.\d*)*)/i", $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'], $matches);
if (!$bsubclassmatch){
$bsuperclassmatch = preg_match("/(?<browser>" . $superclassregex . ")(?:\D*)(?<majorversion>\d*)
(?<subversion>(?:\.\d*)*)/i", $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'], $matches);
}
if ($bsubclassmatch||$bsuperclassmatch){
$browser_name = strtolower($matches["browser"]);
$browser_majorversion = (int)$matches["majorversion"];
$browser_fullversion = $matches["majorversion"].$matches["subversion"];
if (!strcasecmp($browser_name, "Safari")){
$safarimatch = preg_match("/Version\/(?<majorversion>\d*)
(?<subversion>(?:\.\d*)*)/i", $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'], $safarimatches);
if ($safarimatch){
$browser_majorversion = (int)$safarimatches["majorversion"];
$browser_fullversion = $safarimatches["majorversion"].$safarimatches["subversion"];
}
}
}
?>
ck+php dot net at animepaper dot net
04-Jan-2008 08:25
04-Jan-2008 08:25
latest update for php_browscap.ini
should be download at http://browsers.garykeith.com/stream.asp?PHP_BrowsCapINI
for others version (i.e: xml, csv etc)
http://browsers.garykeith.com/faq.asp
jesdisciple [at] gmail -dawt- com
19-Nov-2007 04:13
19-Nov-2007 04:13
Use this to ensure that the costly call in its standard form never needs to be repeated:
<?php
function getBrowser(){
static $browser;//No accident can arise from depending on an unset variable.
if(!isset($browser)){
$browser = get_browser($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']);
}
return $browser;
}
?>
Steffen
19-Oct-2007 10:59
19-Oct-2007 10:59
Keep in mind that get_browser(); really slows down your application. It takes about 22 ms to execute on an idle server with Ubuntu Linux, Apache 2, PHP 5.1.3.
digibrisk at gmail dot NOSPAM dot SPAMNO dot com
06-Oct-2007 12:20
06-Oct-2007 12:20
If the "browscap" directive isn't set in your server's php.ini, then an error warning is shown. Just in case, you could make a call to ini_get() to check if the browscap directive is set before using browser_get().
<?php
if(ini_get("browscap")) {
$browser = get_browse(null, true);
}
?>
mike at mike-griffiths dot co dot uk
23-Jul-2007 09:41
23-Jul-2007 09:41
You should not rely on just this for cross-browser compatibility issues. Good practice would be to include HTML if-statements for IE stylesheets as well as dynamically checking the browser type.
ansar dot ahmed at impelsys dot com
22-Mar-2007 10:01
22-Mar-2007 10:01
We are using get_browser() function for useragent Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; Windows NT) the get_browser function is returning as Default Browser and Platform = unknown.
So i added this to my browscap.ini manually:
[Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; Windows NT)]
Parent=IE 4.01
Platform=WinNT
sam
22-Oct-2006 10:09
22-Oct-2006 10:09
I thought this function might be useful to those without access to the php.ini file (such as those on a shared hosting system):
function php_get_browser($agent = NULL){
$agent=$agent?$agent:$_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'];
$yu=array();
$q_s=array("#\.#","#\*#","#\?#");
$q_r=array("\.",".*",".?");
$brows=parse_ini_file("php_browscap.ini",true);
foreach($brows as $k=>$t){
if(fnmatch($k,$agent)){
$yu['browser_name_pattern']=$k;
$pat=preg_replace($q_s,$q_r,$k);
$yu['browser_name_regex']=strtolower("^$pat$");
foreach($brows as $g=>$r){
if($t['Parent']==$g){
foreach($brows as $a=>$b){
if($r['Parent']==$a){
$yu=array_merge($yu,$b,$r,$t);
foreach($yu as $d=>$z){
$l=strtolower($d);
$hu[$l]=$z;
}
}
}
}
}
break;
}
}
return $hu;
}
define the location of php_browscap.ini wherever you want
always returns an array, same functionality as get_browser(NULL,true)
Hope someone finds it useful!
st DOT jonathan AT gmail DOT com
02-Oct-2006 07:36
02-Oct-2006 07:36
Here is a class I've created that supports an external browscap.ini file (configuration independent) and works faster than get_browser on multiple queries.
http://garetjax.info/projects/browscap/
adspeed.com
02-Sep-2005 05:06
02-Sep-2005 05:06
Here is what we do to fix the parsing error messages for php_browscap.ini downloaded from Gary's website.
<?php
// fix the browsecap.ini for php
$v= file_get_contents('php_browscap.ini');
$v= preg_replace("/\r/","",$v);
$v= preg_replace('/="(.*)"/i','=\\1',$v);
$v= preg_replace("/platform=(.*)/i","platform=\"\\1\"",$v);
$v= preg_replace("/parent=(.*)/i","parent=\"\\1\"",$v);
$v= preg_replace("/minorver=(.*)/i","minorver=\"\\1\"",$v);
$v= preg_replace("/majorver=(.*)/i","majorver=\"\\1\"",$v);
$v= preg_replace("/version=(.*)/i","version=\"\\1\"",$v);
$v= preg_replace("/browser=(.*)/i","browser=\"\\1\"",$v);
$v= str_replace("[*]","*",$v);
file_put_contents('browscap.ini',$v);
?>
pal at degerstrom dot com
26-Apr-2005 01:13
26-Apr-2005 01:13
This might be useful for some until the Gary Keith updates his library. I added this to my browscap.ini to detect the latest Safari update for Panther, and the new Safari in Tiger:
;;; Added manually 05.04.19 for Safari 1.3
[Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; *) AppleWebKit/* (*) Safari/31?]
parent=Safari
version=1.3
majorver=1
minorver=3
;;; Added manually 05.04.26 for Safari 2.0 (Shipped with Tiger)
[Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; *) AppleWebKit/* (*) Safari/41?]
parent=Safari
version=2.0
majorver=2
minorver=0
Note: Full $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'] for Safari 2 (Tiger) is
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/412 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/412
(Disclaimer: I do not know if the entries above conform to whatever syntax standard Gary uses in his file, but it works fine for me).
Pål Degerstrøm
tectonikNOSPAM at free dot fr
07-Apr-2005 09:17
07-Apr-2005 09:17
Another (short) sequential php script to determine browsers family and version.
<?
// _______
// ----- | CONF. |
// ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯
// add new browsers in lower case here, separated
// by spaces - order is important: from left to
// right browser family becomes more precise
$browsers = "mozilla msie gecko firefox ";
$browsers.= "konqueror safari netscape navigator ";
$browsers.= "opera mosaic lynx amaya omniweb";
// _______
// ----- |PROCESS|
// ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯
$browsers = split(" ", $browsers);
$nua = strToLower( $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']);
$l = strlen($nua);
for ($i=0; $i<count($browsers); $i++){
$browser = $browsers[$i];
$n = stristr($nua, $browser);
if(strlen($n)>0){
$GLOBALS["ver"] = "";
$GLOBALS["nav"] = $browser;
$j=strpos($nua, $GLOBALS["nav"])+$n+strlen($GLOBALS["nav"])+1;
for (; $j<=$l; $j++){
$s = substr ($nua, $j, 1);
if(is_numeric($GLOBALS["ver"].$s) )
$GLOBALS["ver"] .= $s;
else
break;
}
}
}
// _______
// ----- | USE |
// ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯
echo("<pre>Your browser is: ");
echo($GLOBALS["nav"] . " " . $GLOBALS["ver"] . "</pre>");
?>
source: http://tectonik.free.fr/technos/php/
another%20PHP%20browser%20sniffer.php
hh
28-Jun-2004 07:19
28-Jun-2004 07:19
Another PHP browser detection script that might be of use to you is here:
http://tech.ratmachines.com/downloads/php_browser_detection.php
This script uses a fairly different logic than get_browser, and doesn't worry about things like table/frame ability. This script was being used by mozdev to id Mozilla versions, since it specializes in that kind of specialized id. It also has unix/linux version os iding.
max at phpexpert dot de
26-Mar-2004 03:14
26-Mar-2004 03:14
Be aware of the fact that this function shows what a specific browser might be able to show, but NOT what the user has turned on/off.
So maybe this function tells you that the browser is abel to to javascript even when javascript is turned off by the user.
bishop
05-Aug-2003 06:46
05-Aug-2003 06:46
PHP is sensitive to characters outside the range [ A-Za-z0-9_] as values in .ini files. For example
browser=Opera (Bork Version)
causes PHP to complain, as it doesn't like the parentheses.
If you place quotation marks around the values for all keys in the browscap.ini file, you'll save yourself parsing problems. Do this in eg vi with %s/=\(.*\)/="\1"/g
You could of course use PHP itself to fixup the file. Exercise left to the reader.
verx at implix dot com
09-Dec-2002 10:57
09-Dec-2002 10:57
Please keep in mind that you should somehow (for example in session) cache the required results of get_browser() because it really slows thinks down.
We have experienced that without querying for browser data our scripts would run 120-130% faster. the explanation is that over 200kb long file (browscap.ini) has to be loaded and parsed everytime someone access any page (we need browser results on all pages).
So keep results in session and expect a performance boost.
les at hazlewood dot com
04-Sep-2001 01:57
04-Sep-2001 01:57
phpSniff (noted in a few places above) is absolutely fantastic. I just installed it, and it is a godsend! It now handles all of my session information needed to go in my database. Thanks for you folks who posted that great Sourceforge resource! http://phpsniff.sourceforge.net/
philip at cornado dot com
26-Aug-2001 03:05
26-Aug-2001 03:05
A couple places that may interest you :
* http://phpbuilder.com/columns/tim20000821.php3
* http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpsniff/
nick at category4 dot com
12-Jun-2001 11:21
12-Jun-2001 11:21
Here's a quick way to test for a Netscape browser. IE and Konqueror and several others call themselves "Mozilla", but they always qualify it with the word "compatible."
$isns = stristr($HTTP_USER_AGENT, "Mozilla") && (!(stristr($HTTP_USER_AGENT, "compatible")));
triad at df dot lth dot se
30-Jul-2000 11:17
30-Jul-2000 11:17
The only way browscap examines the target browser is through the HTTP_USER_AGENT so there is no way you can determine installed plug-ins. The only way to do that is through client-side JavaScripts.