User's details from PHP

OhLordy

How can I get the users browser, O/S, and IP address from PHP?
I this is not possible is there a way of me getting it from Javascript?
Thanks in advance
Rob

I have decided that the IP would be of no help with the error reporting as would most of the info in get_browser() so have gone with spliting down $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'] instead

Norman_Graham

IP address? No idea, but try this for the rest:

$HTTP_USER_AGENT

and

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.get-browser.php

Norman

PS: Aha - just found this for IP address

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.gethostbyname.php

OhLordy

For some reason this function is not working.
I cut and pasted thier example into a file and it would not run. The I red the bit at the bottom about the optional user_agent parameter so I filled that in and it's STILL not working.

Any ideas?
Thanks Rob

PS
I'm running PHP 4.2.2

OhLordy

Found the problem I think, need to set it up in php.ini.
One other thing, the gethostbyname() function gets the numeric IP from a web address. I want the IP address of the client who is looking at my page.
How can I get hold of this?
Thanx Rob

Norman_Graham

... no idea. Is that what you call 'pinging'? I don't think PHP does this, but I could be wrong. Can anyone help here?

Norman