IE Blocker

New_Coder

Hi ,
How To block/redirect visitor IE< 9 using any php function ?!. Example : redirect to error page any user if have IE 5/6/7/8 .

Thanks.

traq

you could check the user agent string. it would be tedious. you'd be blocking lots of users. and, it would be terribly unreliable.

A far better solution would be to design a website that doesn't break in Internet Explorer (or at least, isn't a total disaster in IE7+). I don't know what your specific problem is, but IE compatibility isn't SO difficult that you'd have to just cut them all off.

johanafm

Also, IE9 can't be used with Windows XP, and lots of people, I've heard as many as 30-35% of all PCs, are still running XP. Making things work with IE8 definitely isn't hard. Also, why would you want to block users from executing php functions? php is run on the server, not the client, so it won't matter what browser the user has.

Any html / javascript output you send on the other hand has to work in the users browser. But most of the old IE crap was fixed allready in IE8, and if you use jquery you won't have to worry about browser javascript differences.

Bonesnap

Lots of things are still broken/misused/unused/etc. in IE 8 and even in IE 9, but yes, I agree, don't block ~75% or even more of your potential visitors.

samuelcook

I like that he just wants to cut all IE users out of the equations. That's the spirit!!

New_Coder

I check user for my admin login page!!! For more security i block all IE user 6,7,8 ~ .