get_browser
(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)
get_browser — Tells what the user's browser is capable of
Description
$user_agent
= null
, bool $return_array
= false
): object|array|falseAttempts to determine the capabilities of the user's browser, by looking up the browser's information in the browscap.ini file.
Parameters
-
user_agent
-
The User Agent to be analyzed. By default, the value of HTTP User-Agent header is used; however, you can alter this (i.e., look up another browser's info) by passing this parameter.
You can bypass this parameter with a
null
value. -
return_array
-
If set to
true
, this function will return an array instead of an object.
Return Values
The information is returned in an object or an array which will contain
various data elements representing, for instance, the browser's major and
minor version numbers and ID string; true
/false
values for features
such as frames, JavaScript, and cookies; and so forth.
The cookies
value simply means that the browser
itself is capable of accepting cookies and does not mean the user has
enabled the browser to accept cookies or not. The only way to test if
cookies are accepted is to set one with setcookie(),
reload, and check for the value.
Returns false
when no information can be retrieved, such as when the
browscap configuration setting in
php.ini has not been set.
Examples
Example #1 Listing all information about the users browser
<?php
echo $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'] . "\n\n";
$browser = get_browser(null, true);
print_r($browser);
?>
The above example will output something similar to:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3 Array ( [browser_name_regex] => ^mozilla/5\.0 (windows; .; windows nt 5\.1; .*rv:.*) gecko/.* firefox/0\.9.*$ [browser_name_pattern] => Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; ?; Windows NT 5.1; *rv:*) Gecko/* Firefox/0.9* [parent] => Firefox 0.9 [platform] => WinXP [browser] => Firefox [version] => 0.9 [majorver] => 0 [minorver] => 9 [cssversion] => 2 [frames] => 1 [iframes] => 1 [tables] => 1 [cookies] => 1 [backgroundsounds] => [vbscript] => [javascript] => 1 [javaapplets] => 1 [activexcontrols] => [cdf] => [aol] => [beta] => 1 [win16] => [crawler] => [stripper] => [wap] => [netclr] => )
Notes
Note:
In order for this to work, your browscap configuration setting in php.ini must point to the correct location of the browscap.ini file on your system.
browscap.ini is not bundled with PHP, but you may find an up-to-date » php_browscap.ini file here.
While browscap.ini contains information on many browsers, it relies on user updates to keep the database current. The format of the file is fairly self-explanatory.