Comments on: Browser.php – Detecting a user’s browser from PHP

By: Chris Schuld

Chris Schuld — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 02:10:03 +0000

Hi Kemal,

Thank you for your comment, however, I disagree with your suggestion. The Browser.php implementation is strictly a utility class to do the “calculation.” How you implement your scaling, session storage, or even use Browser.php is up to you as the author of your solution. Personally, I would only load the Browser.php file once to do a single calculation per visit rendering the __sleep and __wakeup (magic functions) worthless. Let me know if you feel I am off base.

Thanks, Chris

By: Kemal Delalić

Kemal Delalić — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 13:13:33 +0000

You should consider session-based storing implementation using __sleep() and __wakeup because the current solution isn’t scalable at all.

By: Vincent

Vincent — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 20:31:14 +0000

Brilliant work. Thank you very much for this class. I hope that this helps. I have noticed a small typo in version 1.9. Line 251 refers to ‘browser’ rather than to ‘platform’.

Once agaon thanks for this excellent class.

Regards

Vincent

By: siva

siva — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 12:35:25 +0000

Hai,
Could please tell me how to write a simplified OS Detection script in php, OS Detection in the sense,that user is using or viewing what OS may be ANdroid, Windows Mobile, Linux,
Desktop/Laptops OS, Smartphone OS/Mobile OS, Notebook OS…

and please be in step by step

By: sorin

sorin — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 15:43:34 +0000

Hello!
Thanks for the class, it’s very usefull and works fine. I use it for creating visitors stats, in a larger web aplication wich captures also the visitor operation system and version, sections visited and so on.
If you just want to get the browser details using this class, you should have something like this:

getBrowser();
$browserVersion=$browser->getVersion();
?>

Thanks again for this class.

By: Chris Schuld

Chris Schuld — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 16:50:13 +0000

Hi Dev,

Yes, do this…

$browser = new Browser();
if( $browser->getBrowser() == Browser::BROWSER_IPHONE || $browser->getBrowser() == Browser::BROWSER_IPAD ) {
	echo 'You are on an iPhone or iPad';
}

By: Dev Gadgil

Dev Gadgil — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 16:39:58 +0000

I want to detect first if the browser isMobile() and then if it is an iPhone or an iPad.

The function isMobile() works good. but if i want to implement the function checkBrowseriPhone() i get an error.

Can you tell me how i have to write the php code.

here is my poor version (absolutely beginner, sorry):

$browser = new Browser();
if( $browser->isMobile()) {
echo ‘you are on a mobile device’;
if ( $browser->checkBrowseriPhone()) {
echo ‘you are on an iPhone’;
} else {
echo ‘you are on an other mobile device than iPhone’;
}
} else {
echo ‘you are NOT on a mobile device’:
}

I get an error at the statement: if ( $browser->checkBrowseriPhone())

please give me some advice. thx in advance

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 12:02:48 +0000

Thanks alot, it works alot better than a class called PHP Sniff that I was using before (Outdated I think).

Just tested it in I.e. 6, 7, 8, 9 (BETA) and Firefox 3.6.8 + 4(BETA), Chrome (V???) and the detection works correctly for every single one.

Wonderful work and thank you for your continued efforts to keep it compatible. It also intergated into my existing framework with less than 5 line changes to coding. =)

By: Jan Theofel

Jan Theofel — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 22:47:15 +0000

Thanks for your great work! I have put this into a extension for the Open-Source-CMS Contao. This makes it easily available for all Contao developers.

By: Matthijs

Matthijs — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 10:05:07 +0000

By far the most expansive, best and complete way to detect browser, version and os. And best of all – it’s implemented in my own website in under 2 minutes. Thank you very VERY much for putting this out here!

Regards, Matthijs