PHP Detect Javascript

Tekka

I was wondering if anyone could point me in teh right direction on this, I'm looking for a way to detect if a browser has Javascript enabled, I know how to do it in HTML with <noscript> tags but I need to have this completely server side.

seby

http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.get-browser.php

that should help.

superwormy

You can't with PHP alone. Simple as that. Seby is wrong.

An option might be to have Javascript fill in an HTML form value ( input type="hidden" or something ) , auto-submit the form with Javascript, or ask the user to submit it.

If the field has been filled in with Javascript, its enabled, othewise, its disabled.

Tekka

Well after a bit of a search around again this morning I found: http://phpsniff.sourceforge.net/ which does what I want kind of but I'd really rather learn it myself, a quick look at his source code doesn't really help much either its a bit over my head.

superwormy

It only detects whether Javascript is available, not whether or not Javascript is actually turned on or not.

This simply can't be done without a form submit or something similar, Javascript is client-side and no browsers ( or at least none that I've used ) send indicatations about whether or not Javascript is enabled.

Tekka

Well that bites, Thanks anyway.