almost 9 years ago
PHP has given some useful environment variable that are there in the phpinfo.php page that was used to setup the PHP environment.The best environment variables set by PHP is HTTP_USER_AGENT which identifies the user's browser and operating system.
PHP has a function getenv() to access the value of all the environment variables. The information contained in the HTTP_USER_AGENT environment variable is used to create dynamic content matchable to the browser.
ex
<html>
<body>
<?php
function getBrowser() {
$u_agent = $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'];
$bname = 'Unknown';
$platform = 'Unknown';
$version = "";
//First get the platform?
if (preg_match('/linux/i', $u_agent)) {
$platform = 'linux';
}elseif (preg_match('/macintosh|mac os x/i', $u_agent)) {
$platform = 'mac';
}elseif (preg_match('/windows|win32/i', $u_agent)) {
$platform = 'windows';
}
// Next get the name of the useragent yes seperately and for good reason
if(preg_match('/MSIE/i',$u_agent) && !preg_match('/Opera/i',$u_agent)) {
$bname = 'Internet Explorer';
$ub = "MSIE";
} elseif(preg_match('/Firefox/i',$u_agent)) {
$bname = 'Mozilla Firefox';
$ub = "Firefox";
} elseif(preg_match('/Chrome/i',$u_agent)) {
$bname = 'Google Chrome';
$ub = "Chrome";
}elseif(preg_match('/Safari/i',$u_agent)) {
$bname = 'Apple Safari';
$ub = "Safari";
}elseif(preg_match('/Opera/i',$u_agent)) {
$bname = 'Opera';
$ub = "Opera";
}elseif(preg_match('/Netscape/i',$u_agent)) {
$bname = 'Netscape';
$ub = "Netscape";
}
// finally get the correct version number
$known = array('Version', $ub, 'other');
$pattern = '#(?<browser>' . join('|', $known) . ')[/ ]+(?<version>[0-9.|a-zA-Z.]*)#';
if (!preg_match_all($pattern, $u_agent, $matches)) {
// we have no matching number just continue
}
// see how many we have
$i = count($matches['browser']);
if ($i != 1) {
//we will have two since we are not using 'other' argument yet
//see if version is before or after the name
if (strripos($u_agent,"Version") < strripos($u_agent,$ub)){
$version= $matches['version'][0];
}else {
$version= $matches['version'][1];
}
}else {
$version= $matches['version'][0];
}
// check if we have a number
if ($version == null || $version == "") {$version = "?";}
return array(
'userAgent' => $u_agent,
'name' => $bname,
'version' => $version,
'platform' => $platform,
'pattern' => $pattern
);
}
// now try it
$ua = getBrowser();
$yourbrowser = "Your browser: " . $ua['name'] . " " . $ua['version'] .
" on " .$ua['platform'] . " reports: <br >" . $ua['userAgent'];
print_r($yourbrowser);
?>
</body>
</html>
<html>
<body>
<?php
function getBrowser() {
$u_agent = $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'];
$bname = 'Unknown';
$platform = 'Unknown';
$version = "";
//First get the platform?
if (preg_match('/linux/i', $u_agent)) {
$platform = 'linux';
}elseif (preg_match('/macintosh|mac os x/i', $u_agent)) {
$platform = 'mac';
}elseif (preg_match('/windows|win32/i', $u_agent)) {
$platform = 'windows';
}
// Next get the name of the useragent yes seperately and for good reason
if(preg_match('/MSIE/i',$u_agent) && !preg_match('/Opera/i',$u_agent)) {
$bname = 'Internet Explorer';
$ub = "MSIE";
} elseif(preg_match('/Firefox/i',$u_agent)) {
$bname = 'Mozilla Firefox';
$ub = "Firefox";
} elseif(preg_match('/Chrome/i',$u_agent)) {
$bname = 'Google Chrome';
$ub = "Chrome";
}elseif(preg_match('/Safari/i',$u_agent)) {
$bname = 'Apple Safari';
$ub = "Safari";
}elseif(preg_match('/Opera/i',$u_agent)) {
$bname = 'Opera';
$ub = "Opera";
}elseif(preg_match('/Netscape/i',$u_agent)) {
$bname = 'Netscape';
$ub = "Netscape";
}
// finally get the correct version number
$known = array('Version', $ub, 'other');
$pattern = '#(?<browser>' . join('|', $known) . ')[/ ]+(?<version>[0-9.|a-zA-Z.]*)#';
if (!preg_match_all($pattern, $u_agent, $matches)) {
// we have no matching number just continue
}
// see how many we have
$i = count($matches['browser']);
if ($i != 1) {
//we will have two since we are not using 'other' argument yet
//see if version is before or after the name
if (strripos($u_agent,"Version") < strripos($u_agent,$ub)){
$version= $matches['version'][0];
}else {
$version= $matches['version'][1];
}
}else {
$version= $matches['version'][0];
}
// check if we have a number
if ($version == null || $version == "") {$version = "?";}
return array(
'userAgent' => $u_agent,
'name' => $bname,
'version' => $version,
'platform' => $platform,
'pattern' => $pattern
);
}
// now try it
$ua = getBrowser();
$yourbrowser = "Your browser: " . $ua['name'] . " " . $ua['version'] .
" on " .$ua['platform'] . " reports: <br >" . $ua['userAgent'];
print_r($yourbrowser);
?>
</body>
</html>
The result is this
Your browser: Mozilla Firefox 43.0 on linux reports:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:43.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/43.0
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