get_browser() function... how does it work?

[JJohnsenDK]

Hey

 

How do i get get_browser() to check if the user is using IE or FF?

 

I also tried this: $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']; but it gives me this when im using Internet Explorer 7.0:

 

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0; WOW64; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506; Media Center PC 5.0)

 

???

[nikefido]

On my mac:

 

FireFox:  Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071127 Firefox/2.0.0.11

 

Safari:  Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/523.12.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0.4 Safari/523.12.2

 

Opera:  Opera/9.20 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X; U; en)

 

 

Looks like all you need to do to determine which is which is  something like this:

$userString = $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'];

//and then search the string (strstr() or substr() or something similar) for keywords like "Firefox" "Safari" "Opera"

In your case, "MSIE 7.0" is the keyword. Test this script on older versions of IE to distinguish differences.

 

Hope this helps!

[atl_andy]

use HTTP_SERVER_AGENT and search for MSIE and Firefox.  It shouldn't matter which version is running.

 

$browser = $_SERVER['HTTP_SERVER_AGENT'];

 

$ie = "MSIE";

$ff = "Firefox";

 

strpos($ie, $browser) && strpos($ff, $browser);