So you mean by just putting this code, it will print what I want?
<?php
$info = `/pathtofile.ini`
print_r( get_browser() );
?>get_browser() help - I have no browscap.ini installed
In your main script put the system call
$info = /usr/local/bin/php getbrowser.php
in a seperate file called getbrowser.php put
<?
print_r( get_browser() );
?>
Make sure you have edited php.ini to point to the browscap.ini
and that it is in the same dir as getbrowser.php
This should work, but it seems I have something wrong with my foreach statement. This code:
<?
$info = `/home/ getbrowser.php`;
foreach ($info as $item => $val) {
echo "<b>$item</b> $val <br />\n";
}
?>
Returns this error:
Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/main.php on line 35
That means you are not getting an array into $info
could it be:
$info = /home/getbrowser.php;
instead?
I can't get it. 
Here is how everything is set up.
/home/scripts contains main.php, getbrowser.php, browscap.ini, and php.ini. main.php has the following code:
<?php
$info = `/home/scripts/getbrowser.php`;
foreach ($info as $item => $val) {
echo "<b>$item</b> $val <br />\n";
}
?>getbrowser.php has the following code:
<?php
print_r( get_browser() );
?>Yet I get this error: Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/scripts/main.php on line 37
What is going wrong?
oops, didnt read carefully.
Basically, HalfaBee's idea is to use the PHP interpreter from command line.
//main script
$info = `/path/to/php getbrowser.php`;
print_r($info); //see if it is correct
//getbrowser.php
<?php
print_r(get_browser());
?>I tried this earlier...No error, but no output either.
Still having a problem...Now I get no errors but no output. I'm not quite sure I understand the PHP interpreter via the command line. How does this work?
Try doing
<?
passthru('ls -la /usr/local/bin/php' );
?>
to see if it is actually there.
You can also do this to see where it is
<?
echo '<PRE>';
passthru( 'locate php' );
?>
PHP is just a program that you can run on the server.
Just like doing ls or ps
The first command returns this:
rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 7429677 Mar 9 08:02 /usr/local/bin/php
while the 2nd command returns a LOT of stuff. I still don't see how all of this works.
It shows php is available and you can run it.
OK, getbrowser.php has this code:
<?php
//print_r( get_browser() );
echo get_browser($_SERVER['argv'][0]);
?>main.php has this code:
<?php
$info = `/path/to/dir getbrowser.php`;
print_r($info);
?>/path/to/dir is the path to browscap.ini as well as php.ini and the scripts I am running (getbrowser.php and main.php). Same problem. No errors and no output.
Ok, this works fine for me.
getbrowser.php
<?
print_r( get_browser( $_SERVER['argv'][1] ) );
?>
testscript.php
<?
echo '<pre>';
echo 'Trying '."/usr/local/bin/php -c ./php.ini gb.php \"$HTTP_USER_AGENT\"\n";
passthru( "/usr/local/bin/php -c ./php.ini gb.php \"$HTTP_USER_AGENT\" ",$ret );
if( $ret !=0 )
echo "passthru failed $ret";
else
echo 'passthru worked' ;
?>
It only echo's the data to the screen, but I am sure you can work out how to parse the data.
That script returned this:
Trying /home/public_html/scripts -c ./php.ini getbrowser.php "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)"
passthru failed 126
You are taking out the call to php and replacing it with /home/public_html/scripts
Just cut and paste what I posted and it should work if the two files are in the same dir.
I think I'm getting closer. This time the script returned this:
Trying /usr/local/bin/php -c php.ini getbrowser.php "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)"
Could not open input file: getbrowser.php.
passthru failed 1
Is getbrowser.php is the same dir?
You could try ./getbrowser.php otherwise.
main.php
getbrowser.php
php.ini
browscap.ini
all those files are in the same directory, which is /home/scripts
Getting closer.
Try replacing this line
echo 'Trying '."/usr/local/bin/php -c ./php.ini getbrowser.php \"$HTTP_USER_AGENT\"\n";
with
echo 'Trying '."/usr/local/bin/php -c ./php.ini /home/scripts/getbrowser.php \"$HTTP_USER_AGENT\"\n";
That returns this:
Trying /usr/local/bin/php -c ./php.ini /home/scripts/getbrowser.php "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)"
Warning: get_browser(): browscap ini directive not set. in /home/scripts/getbrowser.php on line 13
passthru worked