Quoting Post Archived Topic: It will not be bumped to the top of the forum. Topic PHP issue Membername   Not a member? Sign Up Free (takes 20 seconds) Password   Forgotten your password? Post Font: Verdana Arial Black Georgia Comic Sans Impact   Size: Tiny Normal Big Huge   Color: Default Dark Red Red Orange Brown Green Olive Cyan Blue Dark Blue Indigo Black [ Check Spelling ] [ Post Preview ] [ LiveTags ] Quote: from [m]pleaseremove[/m] at 1:56 pm on Dec. 30, 2008[quote]Quote: from [m]Mediocre[/m] at 9:34 pm on Dec. 30, 2008[quote]PEAR has a popular package that does this: http://pear.php.net/package/Net_UserAgent_Detect/ Ugly code, but meh.[/quote] That looks like exactly what I'm looking for. I don't suppose you have any experience in implementing this? As per usual Pear's documentation is very poor and I am having a hard time chasing docs after docs and not got it working as yet.[/quote] FAQ Keyword Search: Post Options Favorites Manager Notify me of new replies to this topic by email Notify me of new replies to this topic by private message Original Post pleaseremove Posted at 1:29 pm on Dec. 30, 2008 OK, usual reminder, only reply if you have something useful to add, people saying "Wat?" etc will have their posts removed. I am working in PHP on putting in better logging into my error handling system. As part of this i want to get out the users browser name and version and their OS. So we after something like Firefox 3 and Windows Vista in my case. Now I know we can get the user agent which technically does contain this information, although it requires some processing first. Details are often stored in different places depending on OS and browser. Obviously I would be using get_browser() but this is not supported in the installation of PHP I have and I don't have the relative permissions to change this. Any ideas on how best to do this? Note, I want to do this in PHP, not Javascript. Cheers guys.

Replies Macropiper Posted at 11:19 pm on Jan. 21, 2009 I would use regular expressions to extract the information out of the user agent, best place to start is by obtaining a nice long diverse list of user agents and keep working at the code till it processes them all perfectly. jkjslkjind Posted at 11:39 pm on Dec. 30, 2008 and if you wanna find browser if(strpos($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'],'MSIE') !== false)   echo 'Internet explorer'; remember, you must compare strpos to false. NOT to true. you can use ===false or !==false jkjslkjind Posted at 11:37 pm on Dec. 30, 2008 $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'] try that :) pleaseremove Posted at 3:24 pm on Dec. 30, 2008 Quote: from Mediocre at 10:34 pm on Dec. 30, 2008 I don't see how it's possible to determine browser/OS except through the user agent string. Oh, i know this has to be done through the user agent, it is more than i need something human readable. I dont want it to spit back that i have Windows NT 6.0 or something, I want it to work out Vista. I guess im more looking for smart conversion tables than anything else. The feature is in PHP and there are even ways to get updates for such tables, but it is turned off in my install. Mediocre Posted at 2:34 pm on Dec. 30, 2008 I don't see how it's possible to determine browser/OS except through the user agent string. pleaseremove Posted at 2:18 pm on Dec. 30, 2008 It was looking good, but unfortunately it isn't quite what I am after. It doesn't do much more than reg ex the user agent. At current, when asking for browser and OS i am getting the following: Browser: Mozilla/Netscape 6.x OS: Microsoft Windows NT I am looking for something that actually figures out I have Vista and Firefox 3. Mediocre Posted at 2:06 pm on Dec. 30, 2008 Basically: Code: require_once('Detect.php'); echo 'OS: '.Net_UserAgent_Detect::getOSString().'<br />Browser: '.Net_UserAgent_Detect::getBrowserString(); pleaseremove Posted at 1:56 pm on Dec. 30, 2008 Quote: from Mediocre at 9:34 pm on Dec. 30, 2008 PEAR has a popular package that does this: http://pear.php.net/package/Net_UserAgent_Detect/ Ugly code, but meh. That looks like exactly what I'm looking for. I don't suppose you have any experience in implementing this? As per usual Pear's documentation is very poor and I am having a hard time chasing docs after docs and not got it working as yet. Mediocre Posted at 1:34 pm on Dec. 30, 2008 PEAR has a popular package that does this: http://pear.php.net/package/Net_UserAgent_Detect/ Ugly code, but meh. adriannaa Posted at 1:32 pm on Dec. 30, 2008 Post from this position was omitted due to content violations All 10 previous replies displayed.