PHP Include w/If IE Condition Statement?

[Alan Horvath]

I was having a problem with Internet Exploder (big surprise, right?) displaying my drop down menus improperly. I found a solution that works ... I have a PHP file that I place as an include on all my pages and the drop down menus, on IE, are cool.

 

But my problem, at present, is this:

I need to have that PHP Include (for IE) loaded, in place of my regular PHP Include (for all the other browsers), when some one is using the IE browser.

 

Is there a way to write an "If IE" conditional statement for a PHP Include?

 

Thanks for your help!

 

Alan

[cags]

Same way you'd do any normal if else stament...

 

if($is_IE) {
   include 'ie.php';
} else {
   include 'other.php';
}

 

You could probably shorten that up using the terniary operator if you wanted to.

[mrMarcus]

#user agent sniffer;
$user_agent = (isset ($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']) ? $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'] : '');

if (strpos ($user_agent, 'MSIE') !== false)
{ include 'ie.php'; }
else
{ include 'other.php'; }

[Daniel0]

Generally speaking, user agent sniffing is a bad idea. It breaks forward compatibility and it's the reason why why modern user agent string are long and cryptic.

[Alan Horvath]

I found one that works.

 

This goes into "index.php" (and *nothing* else):

 

<?php

if (eregi("MSIE", $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']))

  { $location = 'http://somesite.com/index_ie.php';

    header ("location: $location");

    exit();

  } else {

    $otherlocation = 'http://somesite.com/index_allothers.php';

    header ("location: $otherlocation");

    exit();

  }

?>

 

[mrMarcus]

I found one that works.

the code i provided "works".  did you even try it?