Need to detect mac os. What string to use?

apenster

Hi!

I want to detect A os that is used on a mac computer. I know I have to look in $HTTP_USER_AGENT (register_globals = on 😃 )

What are most populat mac os's? I need their string representation in http user agent.

So, so far I've come up with
OS/2 >>> http user agent string is os/2
MacOs>>> mac
OS X >>>>> os x

am i correct? can you add something?

LoganK

Only one way to find out - surf to your page on a Mac computer, and see what $HTTP_USER_AGENT gives you!

lth2h

Hopefully this will be more helpful than the other reply :glare:

http://www.mozilla.org/build/revised-user-agent-strings.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_agent#Browsers
http://www.pgts.com.au/pgtsj/pgtsj0208c.html

For the most part, I think you're save checking for "Mac" somewhere in the user agent string although you might want to rule out things like "Turing Machine"

LoganK

Hey! My reply was very helpful, and it's something that they should've done before they posted here. (This is a PHP forum, not a forum with experts on UA strings). If they are expecting Mac visitors, why not have a PHP page "echo $HTTP_USER_AGENT;", and go to the page on a Mac computer. Then they can very easily and plainly see the UA string for a Mac computer. Repeat for any other anticipated browser type. It's really not that hard, and it's a wonder to me why people don't try things themselves before giving up.