lil browser checking script

rigid

guy
i been writing some scripts latly
but i just can`t seem to get how browsers work
so i turn to you guys
and since i know that this suposed to be easy i am posting this in the newbie forum

can some 1 plz write m this lil script:
<?
if browser = IE then it will write this
<table>...</table>
else
<img>...</img>
?>

plz help m soon
thanks in advance
respectfully
RiGiD

devinemke

if (strpos($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'], 'MSIE') !== false)
{
	echo '<table>...</table>';
}
else
{
	echo '<img>...</img>';
}

rigid

thanks man
worked flaw lessly
i still hate difrent browsers though

Gasolene

off topic

why do you hate other browsers, your html code should work in all browsers.

MSIE is not w3c compliant so some code may work in MSIE and not other browsers.

This is not the fault of the browser, if you create compliant html, then it will display properly in all browsers.

rehfeld

seriously, you should RARELY need to use browser sniffing.

if your html looks different in different browsers, IMPROVE YOUR HTML.

sniffing browsers is not as easy as you may think. there are many different versions of different browsers, and simply checking for MSIE or Mozilla etc is not going to give you reliable results.

checking for msie will tell you that opera is msie, but obviously it is not.
checking for mozilla will tell you ie is mozilla, but its not.

heres a list of the different user agents, its gigantic.

http://www.psychedelix.com/agents.html

unless you plan to take each and every browser into account, your better off just learning how to write better html code. in fact, your always better off just writing better html.

the first step is to use a valid DOCTYPE that puts browser into standards compliant rendering mode.

rigid

yea i agree with you man
but i found out that besids IE no other browser can run Terminal font
each 1 change it to something else to some shitty TrueType font
and in my logo i wanted terminal font
so what i did is do 2 versions of the logo
1 img
2 text
when it is IE then it shows the text when it is anything else it shows the img

and that is how i solved the problem

Gasolene

the fact that your MSIE renders terminal font does not mean mine will. It's not the browser, it's the configuration of the browser that allows MSIE to render that font.

You should never rely on the browser to render your font.

...even arial is not supported by all browsers.

as far as a logo goes, a logo should be an image. I don't think there is any advantage to having a text logo unless the text in your logo changes (but then it wouldn't be a logo).

rigid

u r right about that but i doubt that i will find a IE that dosn`t run Terminal
and if there is 1 out there then what can i do
it will not look as good
but it will look great on all of the others
and i want to make it text and not img because i am all about old skool
and besids my img is a screenshot of the text
lol