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PHP get_browser() Function

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Definition and Usage

The get_browser() function looks up the user's browscap.ini file and returns the capabilities of the user's browser.

This function returns an object or an array with information about the user's browser on success, or FALSE on failure.

Syntax

get_browser(user_agent,return_array)

Parameter Description
user_agent Optional. Specifies the name of an HTTP user agent. Default is the value of $HTTP_USER_AGENT. You can bypass this parameter with NULL
return_array Optional. If this parameter is set to TRUE, the function will return an array instead of an object

Example

<?php
echo $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'] . "<br /><br />";
$browser = get_browser(null,true);
print_r($browser);
?>

The output of the code above could be something like this:

Mozilla/4.0
(compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)

Array
(
[browser_name_regex] => ^mozilla/.\.0
(compatible; msie 6\.0.*;.*windows nt 5\.1.*\.net clr.*).*$
[browser_name_pattern] => Mozilla/?.0
(compatible; MSIE 6.0*;*Windows NT 5.1*.NET CLR*)*
[parent] => IE 6.0
[platform] => WinXP
[netclr] => 1
[browser] => IE
[version] => 6.0
[majorver] => 6
[minorver] => 0
[css] => 2
[frames] => 1
[iframes] => 1
[tables] => 1
[cookies] => 1
[backgroundsounds] => 1
[vbscript] => 1
[javascript] => 1
[javaapplets] => 1
[activexcontrols] => 1
[cdf] => 1
[aol] =>
[beta] =>
[win16] =>
[crawler] =>
[stripper] =>
[wap] =>
[ak] =>
[sk] =>
)

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