getBrowser().' '.$browser->getPlatform() ?>
getResults()); ?>
https://github.com/james2doyle/browser-sniffer
A simple class to detect the browser and the platform (operating system) that the user is using
https://github.com/james2doyle/browser-sniffer
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A simple class to detect the browser and the platform (operating system) that the user is using
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/james2doyle/browser-sniffer
- Owner: james2doyle
- License: mit
- Created: 2015-08-08T21:09:13.000Z (almost 11 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2015-08-09T18:35:26.000Z (almost 11 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-03-03T20:04:20.335Z (over 1 year ago)
- Language: PHP
- Size: 133 KB
- Stars: 1
- Watchers: 3
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 0
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE
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README
Browser Sniffer Class
=====================
A very simple class that takes in a user agent string and returns the browser name (Firefox, Chrome, Opera, etc.) and also the Operating System (Mac, Windows, Android, etc.).
### Install
It is recommended that you install the PHP Browser library [through composer](http://getcomposer.org/). To do so, add the following lines to your `composer.json` file.
```json
{
"require": {
"james2doyle/browser-sniffer": "dev-master"
}
}
```
### Reasons
Firstly, you *should not* use browser sniffing for feature detection, [use Modernizr](http://modernizr.com/).
We mainly use this for style tweaks between different browsers, or sometimes you may need to add a little script (differences in keystroke handling can be difficult to feature detect) or tweak on a specific platform combination and so you might do a check to see if that makes sense.
The results are pretty crude. We only return `internet-explorer` if IE is found. There is *no version information*.
For the platform, we only return that operation system. This means all iOS devices (iPad, iPhone, iPod) would only return `ios`. If you need to know specifics about the device, [use media queries](http://stephen.io/mediaqueries/).
### Results
The information returned is all *class* safe. This package should primarily be used to add additional classes to the `` or `` tag of a template. That is the reason is was made.
### Support
**Platforms**
* Linux
* IOS
* Mac
* Windows
* Windows Phone
* Android
* Blackberry
**Browsers**
* MSIE
* Trident
* Edge
* Vivaldi
* Firefox
* Chrome
* Opera
* Opera Mini
* Safari
### Usage
```php
Browser Class
body.google-chrome.mac {
background: red;
}
```
Results for *Chrome on a Macbook*:
```html
Browser Class
body.google-chrome.mac {
background: red;
}
google-chrome mac
array(3) {
["ua"]=>
string(120) "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/41.0.2272.35 Safari/537.36"
["platform"]=>
string(3) "mac"
["browser"]=>
string(13) "google-chrome"
}
```
This page would only have a red background is someone was looking at the page using a Mac (desktop or laptop) with Google Chrome.