Operating System

[canadabeeau]

How in PHP or other language can I detect Operating system, ie Windows XP Home, Windows 7 Ultimate, Mac OS 10?

Anyone know how?

 

Thanks in advance

[Buddski]

You can determine the operating system using a client side language like Javascript using the navigator.appVersion string..

[canadabeeau]

That returns "Win32"

I found this http://techpatterns.com/downloads/php_browser_detection.php but cant get it to work, I downloaded http://techpatterns.com/downloads/scripts/javascript_browser_detection.txt and made it browser.php but cant get it to work, ideas anyone?

[oni-kun]

How in PHP or other language can I detect Operating system, ie Windows XP Home, Windows 7 Ultimate, Mac OS 10?

Anyone know how?

 

Thanks in advance

You can only find the OS using the client's UA (User Agent). Note this is sent by the client and may be blank, or spoofed.

 

$OSList = array 
      (
              // Match user agent string with operating systems
              'Windows 3.11' => '/Win16/i',
              'Windows 95' => '/(Windows 95)|(Win95)|(Windows_95)/i',
              'Windows 98' => '/(Windows 98)|(Win98)/i',
              'Windows 2000' => '/(Windows NT 5.0)|(Windows 2000)/i',
              'Windows XP' => '/(Windows NT 5.1)|(Windows XP)/i',
              'Windows Server 2003' => '/(Windows NT 5.2)/i',
              'Windows Vista' => '/(Windows NT 6.0)/i',
              'Windows 7 ' => '/(Windows NT 7.0)/i',
              'Windows NT 4.0' => '/(Windows NT 4.0)|(WinNT4.0)|(WinNT)|(Windows NT)/i',
              'Windows ME' => '/Windows ME/i',
              'Open BSD ' => '/OpenBSD/i',
              'Sun OS ' => '/SunOS/i',
              'Linux' => '/(Linux)|(X11)/i',
              'Mac OS' => '/(Mac_PowerPC)|(Macintosh)/i',
              'QNX' => '/QNX/i', 
              'BeOS' => '/BeOS/i',
              'Search Bot'=>'/(nuhk)|(Googlebot)|(Yammybot)|(Openbot)|(Slurp)|(MSNBot)|(Ask Jeeves/Teoma)|(ia_archiver)/i'
      );
      // Loop through the array of user agents and matching operating systems
      foreach($OSList as $CurrOS=>$Match)
      {
              // Find a match
              if (preg_match($Match, $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']))
              {
                      // We found the correct match
                      break;
              }
      }

I rewrote an example I found to be more up to date for you.. This should work, and is the only possible method.

 

 

[canadabeeau]

<?php
$OSList = array 
      (
              // Match user agent string with operating systems
              'Windows 3.11' => '/Win16/i',
              'Windows 95' => '/(Windows 95)|(Win95)|(Windows_95)/i',
              'Windows 98' => '/(Windows 98)|(Win98)/i',
              'Windows 2000' => '/(Windows NT 5.0)|(Windows 2000)/i',
              'Windows XP' => '/(Windows NT 5.1)|(Windows XP)/i',
              'Windows Server 2003' => '/(Windows NT 5.2)/i',
              'Windows Vista' => '/(Windows NT 6.0)/i',
              'Windows 7 ' => '/(Windows NT 7.0)/i',
              'Windows NT 4.0' => '/(Windows NT 4.0)|(WinNT4.0)|(WinNT)|(Windows NT)/i',
              'Windows ME' => '/Windows ME/i',
              'Open BSD ' => '/OpenBSD/i',
              'Sun OS ' => '/SunOS/i',
              'Linux' => '/(Linux)|(X11)/i',
              'Mac OS' => '/(Mac_PowerPC)|(Macintosh)/i',
              'QNX' => '/QNX/i', 
              'BeOS' => '/BeOS/i',
              'Search Bot'=>'/(nuhk)|(Googlebot)|(Yammybot)|(Openbot)|(Slurp)|(MSNBot)|(Ask Jeeves/Teoma)|(ia_archiver)/i'
      );
      // Loop through the array of user agents and matching operating systems
      foreach($OSList as $CurrOS=>$Match)
      {
              // Find a match
              if (preg_match($Match, $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']))
              {
                      // We found the correct match
                      break;
              }
      }
?>

 

How do I get it to display (echo)??

[oni-kun]

Just add one line:

      // Loop through the array of user agents and matching operating systems
      foreach($OSList as $CurrOS=>$Match)
      {
              // Find a match
              if (preg_match($Match, $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']))
              { 
                      // We found the correct match
	      echo $CurrOS;
                      break;
              }
      }

 

You can also wrap it in a function, and return $CurrOS instead of echoing it so you can place it in a variable.

[canadabeeau]

Okay my genuine Windows 7 ultimate according to your script is Windows NT 4.0. HELP????

[canadabeeau]

Why cant I get this one to work, it detects correctly http://techpatterns.com/downloads/php_browser_detection.php

When I download it I cant get it to work, any one have an idea?

[oni-kun]

Why cant I get this one to work, it detects correctly http://techpatterns.com/downloads/php_browser_detection.php

When I download it I cant get it to work, any one have an idea?

What doesn't work of it, what errors does it give you? It seems to use the EXACT same method to pull out the OS. By the way, what is your user agent string? If it contains 'win7' instead of NT 7.0, you can simply add /win7/i, to the array to match it.

[canadabeeau]

This is now resolved, got a different script to work.

Thanks goes to oni-kun and Buddski who seems to be coming to my aid with all my posts so special thanks to you.