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Usage:
$browser = new Browser();
if( $browser->getBrowser() == Browser::BROWSER_FIREFOX && $browser->getVersion() >= 2 ) {
echo 'You have Firefox version 2 or greater';
}
User agents sampled from: http://www.useragentstring.com/
Based on original work from Gary White (http://apptools.com/phptools/browser/
CHANGELOG:
2012-12-26 (v1.9c by Chris Christoff):
- Changed vars to publics
2012-12-23 (v1.9b by Chris Christoff):
- Removed the browser string return and added spacing.
- Also removed return HTML formatting.
2012-12-23 (v1.9a by Chris Christoff):
- Split user string and add formatting so we can print a nicely
formatted user agent string
2010-08-20 (v1.9):
- Added MSN Explorer Browser (legacy)
- Added Bing/MSN Robot (Thanks Rob MacDonald)
- Added the Android Platform (PLATFORM_ANDROID)
- Fixed issue with Android 1.6/2.2 (Thanks Tom Hirashima)
2010-04-27 (v1.8):
- Added iPad Support
2010-03-07 (v1.7):
- MAJOR Rebuild (preg_match and other "slow" routine removal(s))
- Almost allof Gary's original code has been replaced
- Large PHPUNIT testing environment created to validate new releases and additions
- Added FreeBSD Platform
- Added OpenBSD Platform
- Added NetBSD Platform
- Added SunOS Platform
- Added OpenSolaris Platform
- Added support of the Iceweazel Browser
- Added isChromeFrame() call to check if chromeframe is in use
- Moved the Opera check in front of the Firefox check due to legacy Opera User Agents
- Added the __toString() method (Thanks Deano)
2009-11-15:
- Updated the checkes for Firefox
- Added the NOKIA platform
- Added Checks for the NOKIA brower(s)
2009-11-08:
- PHP 5.3 Support
- Added support for BlackBerry OS and BlackBerry browser
- Added support for the Opera Mini browser
- Added additional documenation
- Added support for isRobot() and isMobile()
- Added support for Opera version 10
- Added support for deprecated Netscape Navigator version 9
- Added support for IceCat
- Added support for Shiretoko
2010-04-27 (v1.8):
- Added iPad Support
2009-08-18:
- Updated to support PHP 5.3 - removed all deprecated function calls
- Updated to remove all double quotes (") -- converted to single quotes (')
2009-04-27:
- Updated the IE check to remove a typo and bug (thanks John)
2009-04-22:
- Added detection for GoogleBot
- Added detection for the W3C Validator.
- Added detection for Yahoo! Slurp
2009-03-14:
- Added detection for iPods.
- Added Platform detection for iPhones
- Added Platform detection for iPods
2009-02-16: (Rick Hale)
- Added version detection for Android phones.
2008-12-09:
- Removed unused constant
2008-11-07:
- Added Google's Chrome to the detection list
- Added isBrowser(string) to the list of functions special thanks to
Daniel 'mavrick' Lang for the function concept (http://mavrick.id.au)
Gary White noted: "Since browser detection is so unreliable, I am
no longer maintaining this script. You are free to use and or
modify/update it as you want, however the author assumes no
responsibility for the accuracy of the detected values."
Anyone experienced with Gary's script might be interested in these notes:
Added class constants
Added detection and version detection for Google's Chrome
Updated the version detection for Amaya
Updated the version detection for Firefox
Updated the version detection for Lynx
Updated the version detection for WebTV
Updated the version detection for NetPositive
Updated the version detection for IE
Updated the version detection for OmniWeb
Updated the version detection for iCab
Updated the version detection for Safari
Updated Safari to remove mobile devices (iPhone)
Added detection for iPhone
Added detection for robots
Added detection for mobile devices
Added detection for BlackBerry
Removed Netscape checks (matches heavily with firefox & mozilla)
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