Posted by Ojas on 11/29/07 10:53

On Nov 28, 11:26 pm, Jerry Stuckle <jstuck...@attglobal.net> wrote:
> Kailash Nadh wrote:
> > On Nov 28, 5:34 am, Ojas <contacto...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Hi!,
>
> >> I just out of curiosity want to know how top detect the client side
> >> application under which the script is getting run. I mean to ask the
> >> how to know whether the script is running under Command Prompt or
> >> Browser or some other application?
>
> >> Ojas.
>
> > Yep, when a php script is run from the commandline, the two variables
> > $argc and $argv (commandline arguments) are registered.
> > They might be empty, but they still would be registered when being run
> > from the commandline (and not when not in the commandline)
> >http://uk.php.net/features.commandline
>
> > --
> > Kailash Nadh |http://kailashnadh.name
>
> But that's server side. He asked about client side. And the answer is
> there is no good way.
>
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Thanks to all of you for replying but i still think there should be a
way to know that. Actually someone may have to implement a check on
the basis of that. Unavailability of the functionality can break the
logic!!

Ojas

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