Re: How to detect browsers with $HTTP_USER_AGENT

There's a whole browsecap (sp?) thing that people use for that. See php.ini You could also roll your own. See <?php phpinfo();?> and you'll probably find $HTTP_USER_AGENT there. Then you just use ereg_* or preg_* or whatever you need to do what you want. There is also sample code in the code archives http://php.net/links.php Finally, I think php.net itself does this for those cool popup dhtml layers and whatnot -- since IE/Netscape need different dhtml to not crash. Click on the source code button and start digging. ----- Original Message ----- From: Carlos Fernando <nando@antunes.eti.br> Newsgroups: php.general Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2000 12:12 PM Subject: [PHP] How to detect browsers with $HTTP_USER_AGENT > Hello everybody, > > Usually I log my web site activity including the User Agent string that > is returned by the client's browser. I would like to implement something > like Netscape but using PHP. I need to create a function to identify > what comes through the User Agent content and write it back in a > friendly way : > > For instance : > > Mozilla/4,0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98) = Internet Explorer 5.5 > OS Windows 98 > > Mozilla/4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux2.2.16-22.i586) = Netscape 4.76 under > Linux > > Is there any patterns or rules that aplly to the User Agent variable? > > How could I accomplish that? > > Thank you, > > Carlos Fernando Scheidecker Antunes > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net >