Simplified PHP Browser Detection Script

Download: Simplified PHP Browser Detection Script
Current Version: 1.1.9
File Last Modified: September 30, 2009. 15:37:42 pm

This is a simplified version of the full featured browser detection script. This simpler version returns only two things, the browser name or the browser number, or an array containing these two values, but uses more or less the same logic as the above one. Use this if checking for super precise browser versions is not that important, but you still like the flexibility of using arrays and return values.

Example:
<?php
// this would be a simple ns4 test, say to protect
//some page code that will not work in Netscape 4x
if ( browser_detection('browser') == 'ns4' ) { execute some code;  }
else { execute some other code; }
?>
					

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Simple Conditional (if) Based PHP Browser Detection Script

Download: Simple 'if' clause based PHP Browser Detection Script
Current Version: 2.0.2
File Last Modified: June 29, 2007. 14:54:33 pm

Simply cut and paste this browser detection script into your PHP code. This is the simple 'if' clause version of the browser detector. We also have a complex version, above, that is based on arrays and loops. This script uses if clauses to check for browser versions. It checks these agains the navigatorUserAgent() strings, then packs browser variables with the proper information.

The main advantages of this browser detection script, like the above one, is that it will not be fooled by Opera or Safari, no matter how Opera is set to identify itself, since the first thing tested for is Opera, and if it's Opera, that's the last thing tested for as well. It can be used to deliver browser specific stylesheets to the page depending on what browser is requesting the page. Since this is run on the server side, it doesn't require client side Javascripting to be enabled to function.

This code is a simpler version of what we use in case you are not comfortable with arrays and loops, if you need to set browser CSS and other coding particulars.

Currently this script identifies the following specific browsers: Opera, Internet Explorer 4, Internet Explorer, Mozilla/Netscape Gecko based browsers, Netscape 4.x, Konqueror, Safari It is easy to add more browsers if required.

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