Browser Sniffers and PHP

Anon

Hi,

Here's my problem -

My site looks great in :

Mozilla
Opera
NS6
IE4+
Konqueror

But in NS4 it sucks 🙁

I've designed a NS4 version so what I need is to be able to redirect people automatically using a sniffer.

But here's the problem.

Following this article :

http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/kendall20001122.php3

About using the fasttemplate class to build sites my site is in this form :

header.tmpl
footer.tmpl
prepend.php (calling the class just as in the article)
and subsequent php files for each page.

What I want to do is to have 2 templates.

A normal version of

header
footer

but also a NS4 version of header and footer.

The problem is this....

I don't know where abouts to put the sniffer in order for it to be read. I'm assuming that the normal template will be my default template so everyone BUT NS4 users will use it. I'm not sure which sniffer to use. ATM I have a JS sniffer from the Netscape website.

So if anyone can help me with this mess I'd be very very grateful !!

Thanks

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sniffer? you mean a piece of PHP to find out the browsertype? well 'obviously' you have to know the browsertype before you print any HTML, so where would it go? it goes just before any code that uses a template. It would have to be the first thing that your PHP pages do; always find out the browsertype and then use the NS4 or the 'regular' templates.

A forum, a FAQ, email notification, what else do you need?

Time to YAPF!: http://www.hvt-automation.nl/yapf/

Anon

OK I understand that 😉

But what I don't understand is how to make the code choose between the 2 templates.

This is the very first bit of php code to be called upon a request from a browser I think :

<?
include("class.FastTemplate.php3");
function pageStart($title = '') {

GLOBAL $tpl;

$tpl = new FastTemplate('.');
$tpl->define( array( 'main' => 'main.tpl',
'header' => 'header.tpl',
'footer' => 'footer.tpl' ) );
$tpl->assign('TITLE', $title);
ob_start();
}

/**
Uses FastTemplate object to construct and output the page.
Page body content comes from previously buffered output.
*/
function pageFinish() {

GLOBAL $tpl;

/ get page contents /
$content = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();
$tpl->assign('CONTENT', $content);

/ construct the page /
$tpl->parse('HEADER', 'header');
$tpl->parse('FOOTER', 'footer');
$tpl->parse('MAIN', 'main');

/ output the page /
$tpl->FastPrint('MAIN');
}
?>

Any ideas how I might go about this ?

Thanks 🙂