firefox only

[nashsaint]

Hi,

 

Is there anyway to set my php page to strictly viewable only on firefox?

[MadTechie]

what do you mean by "strictly viewable only" also you could check the clients browsers Agent  in the $_SERVER super global

[thebadbad]

A simple way would be to put this at the top of your code:

 

<?php
if (!strpos($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'], 'Firefox')) {echo 'Viewable with Firefox only!'; exit;}
?>

 

But remember that tech savvy users can alter the user agent string to anything they want, so it will not keep those from seeing your page in other browsers. It should stop most people though.

[Jpoel]

Use something like this?

 

<?php

$useragent = $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'];

if(!preg_match('|Firefox/([0-9\.]+)|',$useragent,$matched)) {
die("You must use firefox to view this page");
}

//Anything from now on will only be seen by firefox users.

?>

 

Edit: Sorry, didnt see your post BadBad

[MadTechie]

while thebadbad & Jpoel code will work (i prefer thebadbad code, sorry Jpoel preg_match overhead), you must keep inmind,

Only around 39% of users are using firefox (its increasing, this time last year is was around 33%)

 

[thebadbad]

When I code (XHTML/CSS) I go for compatibility in Firefox and IE7. They're handling the code mostly the same (the IE team sure has improved with IE7, although there's still some CSS issues around). I know there's still a large group of IE6 users, but they're hopefully updating sooner or later.

 

My point is, along the lines of MadTechie's, that you shouldn't cut off all non-Firefox users, but try to keep up with the standards, and make your code work in at least IE7 and Firefox. But maybe you just wanted to play around with browser specific code. If so, fine, but my advice still applies