Platform

planetphp

Hi,

I'm building a script that takes users to a different page depending on their platform.

What is the syntax to retrieve the users platform?

Please help.

planetphp

just thought i ought to add to this....

i'm specifically looking to tell the difference between a mac and pc platform. and also is there a way to tell if the user has javascript enabled or disabled???

cahva

I dont know about the platform thing, but use $HTTP_USER_AGENT which tells you the browser. Dont know about the javascript thing tho..

Weedpacket

It needs an extra page and for that reason only works once, but you can have an onload= handler that makes a form submission of a hidden variable. This has to be done on an extra page before the real page because the form submission triggers a response from the server. If Javascript is enabled the onload event fires, if not, it doesn't.

But why do you need to know? Can't you just use a <NOSCRIPT> entity for its intended purpose?

planetphp

problem i'm having is mac users are only getting half of the page to load for some reason.

I want to build a script that decides which homepage to send them to depending on their comp. if its a mac goto a non-frames page with no scripts (as ive had trouble with javascripts on mac) and if pc goto normal page, and if pc with no java goto non java page.. if that makes sense!!!

frymaster

if it works ok on win and not on mac then yr problem is probably yr html. i always run mine through the w3c validator

http://validator.w3.org/

it's insanely strict (ie it complains if you don't have alt tags) but is worth it.