#19902 [Bgs]: browscap.ini parsing error

ID: 19902 User updated by: juri@ria.com Reported By: juri@ria.com Status: Bogus Bug Type: Scripting Engine problem Operating System: All Win PHP Version: 4.2.3 New Comment: Hello Iliaa Why do you release a browscap.ini with invalid entries with every new distribution of PHP? Everybody using browscap.ini is forced to edit it, before he may use it. Cumbersom... Kind regards Juri Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-10-14 18:54:22] iliaa@php.net Thank you for taking the time to write to us, but this is not a bug. Please double-check the documentation available at http://www.php.net/manual/ and the instructions on how to report a bug at http://bugs.php.net/how-to-report.php The browscap.ini sometimes contains not valid entries not supported by PHP's ini parser. Simply remove those lines, there are usually very few of those. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-10-14 10:38:13] juri@ria.com Hello Bug Report reader. <?php function list_array ($array) { while (list ($key, $value) = each ($array)) { $str .= "<b>$key:</b> $value<br>\n"; } return $str; } echo "$HTTP_USER_AGENT<hr>\n"; $browser = get_browser(); echo list_array ((array) $browser); ?> The browser information will be output together with the following message appended: PHP: Error parsing [drive]:\[path]\browscap.ini on line 8206 browscap.ini at line position 8206 reads: browser=AE/2.1(Linux) Changing "AE/2.1(Linux)" to "AE/2.1 Linux" solves the parsing error. The parsing procedure seems to "dislike" brackets [(,)]. This problem is quite old, but still persists with PHP 4.2.3. Suggestion: Update browscap.ini for PHP distributions accordingly. Kind regards Juri ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=19902&edit=1