Posted by Lowell Allen on 11/17/05 18:52

On Nov 17, 2005, at 10:09 AM, Rahul S. Johari wrote:

> I'm working on a Guestbook for a site and I'm trying to identify
> Browser &
> Operating System of the user and eventually I'll display the Icon
> matching
> the Browser/OS in the entry.
>
> I'm able to identify and use an If Conditional statement for the
> Browser,
> but I can't seem to identify the OS.
>
> This is what I'm using to identify the Browser:
>
>
> function browser_detection( $which_test ) {
>
> // initialize the variables
> $browser = '';
> $dom_browser = '';
>
> // set to lower case to avoid errors, check to see if http_user_agent
> is set
> $navigator_user_agent = ( isset( $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'] ) ) ?
> strtolower( $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'] ) : '';
>
> // run through the main browser possibilities, assign them to the main
> $browser variable
> if (stristr($navigator_user_agent, "opera"))
> {
> $browser = 'opera';
> $dom_browser = true;
> }

[snip]

> Any suggestions on getting the OS ?

If you're using the above to match parts of the
$_SERVER["HTTP_USER_AGENT"] string, why not also use stristr() to look
for "windows", "mac", etc.?

--
Lowell Allen

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