finding the client OS

[ptbsG_Man]

Dose anybody know if you can do that in PHP i found a basic JAVA function but it only returns win, linux, mac, or unix i want to get versions like win 98,95,NT or mac os7, 8 or 9

any ideas

Thanks
Don Gordon

[planetsim]

When dealing with client side issues you must use a client side language.

Try Javascript.
Try "navigator.appName" and try and fetch the last bit.

[theeper]

Actually. most newer browsers include some OS data in their requests these days. Try using ...

$_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'];

or, depending on your PHP version, you may need to use ...

$HTTP_SERVER_VARS['HTTP_USER_AGENT'];

It will return something like this for most browsers ...

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98)