Q: browsecap-like feature in PHP3?

Can I have something like IIS's browsecap
on Apache+PHP3+Linux?

Thanks

Enlighten us non-IIS users - what does the "browsecap" function do??

;-) actually, I am not IIS person either - see http://www.uroam.com for yourself.

Browsecap is a server-side module (ActiveX for MS IIS) that allows a server-side script to have info on different features of the browser used to view the site. The elegance of the solution is in the fact that it is driven by a data file containing description
for each and every browser in existence. This file is maintained by folks at Cyscape.

My idea was to find PHP3-based solution reusing Cyscape capabilities files or at least the one that could be driven by an externally maintained (hierarchichal) database.

I think this could make a wonderful PHP3 project. I realised the need for it when newly released client-side JavaScript client sniffer (http://developer.netscape.com/docs/examples/javascript/browser_type.html) failed on me ;-(

Thanks

For some reason it's not documented well at php.net, but there's a function called get_browser(). The Core PHP Programming book touches on this a bit. The function relies on browscap.ini, which is available from http://php.netvision.net.il/browscap/ . Here's the example from the book:

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica">code:</font><HR><pre>

Syntax: object get_browser(string user_agent)

<?
$browser = get_browser();
print("You are using " . $browser->browser . "<BR>n");
if($browser->javascript)
{
print("Your browser supports JavaScript.<BR>n");
}
?>[/quote]

Hope that helps.

- Scott



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Maxify.com