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elementaluk

Hi,

first i just wanna say how much i hate vBullitin it sux it cost money and what the hell was wrong with the old forum? atleast when registering in the old forum you didn't have to give your life story.
Yo ppl @ PHPBuilder you could of saved alot of money if you just downloaded PHPBB - it looks better and has the same features including mods.

yea anyway my problem (Not the attitude one):

how do i figure oot what browser the user is using, i was thinking maybe a reg exp $HTTP_USER_AGENT but the manual tells me to do this:

<?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);
?>

and yea sure if i knew what that ment i would probably do it, the manual doesn't really help with this much can someone else tell me how i can get just the browser name from that.

Thanks
Vince

israel_sioson

I totally agree with you man. The first time I visited this forum after it migrated to vBulletin I got lost, plus the archive don't work anymore, what a waste of precious information.

Regarding your question. Yes, you could try get_browser() but be sure you don't have problems with your PHP configuration scecifically browscap.ini. What I do is this;

if (ereg( 'MSIE ([0-9].[0-9]{1,2})',$HTTP_USER_AGENT,$log_version)) {
$BROWSER_VER=$log_version[1];
$BROWSER_AGENT='IE';
} elseif (ereg( 'Opera ([0-9].[0-9]{1,2})',$HTTP_USER_AGENT,$log_version)) {
$BROWSER_VER=$log_version[1];
$BROWSER_AGENT='OPERA';
} elseif (ereg( 'Mozilla/([0-9].[0-9]{1,2})',$HTTP_USER_AGENT,$log_version)) {
$BROWSER_VER=$log_version[1];
$BROWSER_AGENT='MOZILLA';
} else {
$BROWSER_VER=0;
$BROWSER_AGENT='OTHER';
}

What it does is it performs an ereg() function in $HTTP_USER_AGENT, I'm interested in IE, Opera, and Mozilla therefore I perform an ereg() for each browser name, and I place the returned value to the array $log_version. $log_version[1] holds the version of the browser.

If you're also interested unto what platform the browser is running in the following codes will do the trick;

if (strstr($HTTP_USER_AGENT,'Win')) {
$BROWSER_PLATFORM='Win';
} else if (strstr($HTTP_USER_AGENT,'Mac')) {
$BROWSER_PLATFORM='Mac';
} else if (strstr($HTTP_USER_AGENT,'Linux')) {
$BROWSER_PLATFORM='Linux';
} else if (strstr($HTTP_USER_AGENT,'Unix')) {
$BROWSER_PLATFORM='Unix';
} else {
$BROWSER_PLATFORM='Other';
}

elementaluk

Thanks 😉

elementaluk

Hey got another question...

what does Netscape id itself as? oh yea and the code...uhh doesn't seem to be working 🙁, i put it in a function like so:

function browsernet()
{
    global $HTTP_USER_AGENT;
// now lets see what browser the user has
// if the user doesn't have IE or OPERA then they must have some other piece of shit
if (!ereg( 'MSIE ([0-9].[0-9]{1,2})',$HTTP_USER_AGENT,$log_version) OR !ereg( 'Opera ([0-9].[0-9]{1,2})',$HTTP_USER_AGENT,$log_version))
{
// $log_version is the browser version
$BROWSER_VER=$log_version[1];
// so yea they have someother piece of shit so give them the Netscape folder
$folder = "Netscape";
} 
}

and used folder in another function like so:

function siteheader()
   {
   	global $sitename,$servicename,$section2, $folder,$PHP_SELF;
        print ("<html> \n<head> \n<title> $sitename - $servicename $section2 </title>\n");
		if($folder == "Netscape")
		{
		include("./include/Netscape/meta.inc.php");
		print("</head>\n");
		include("./include/Netscape/header.inc.php");
		}
		else{
        include("./include/meta.inc.php");
		print("</head>\n");
		include("./include/header.inc.php");
		}

 }

and tryed it in netscape, and it uses the ie design (the else in siteheader)...any ideas?

Thanks
Vince