future use: browser and OS info
Found this code over at www.php.net - I just packaged it up into a file you can drop on your server and look at…
Not really useful on its own… but maybe on a future project, it might be (like a hit tracking app?)
Found this code over at www.php.net - I just packaged it up into a file you can drop on your server and look at…
Not really useful on its own… but maybe on a future project, it might be (like a hit tracking app?)
May 14th, 2002 at 1:20 pm
a hit-tracker? Don’t really need that, there’s already a kick-ass one out there: PHLOGGER
May 14th, 2002 at 1:26 pm
I’ve played around with it… but didn’t care for the interface… I’ve been wanting to make a custom one for myself. a) just for the practice of it and b) so I get *exactly* the info I want, easily… I’m so picky! LOL!
May 14th, 2002 at 1:32 pm
hehehehe, so what info exactly would that be?
May 14th, 2002 at 1:36 pm
For those of you doing skinnable sites, there’s a really practical application for digging up some of this information.
I perform* the following two checks on all of my pages:
if ((stristr($HTTP_USER_AGENT,”avant”)) or (stristr($HTTP_USER_AGENT,”WAP”)))
{
$skin = “13″;
}
if (stristr($HTTP_USER_AGENT,”lynx”))
{
$skin = “3″;
}
If the user_agent matches ‘avant’ or ‘wap’ they’re either using AvantGo or a web-enabled phone, and they should be routed to the pda-friendly version of my site.
If their user_agent is lynx, they can handle the full text of my site, but it should be presented in a lynx-friendly manner. Thus, the lynx-friendly skin.
Now if only we could set something up so that if version number matches 4.7, we could automatically install a real browser on that machine…
* this code was written pre-PHP4.1. PHP after 4.1 supports this version but it’s deprecated…I really need to update this to the new version.
May 14th, 2002 at 2:55 pm
ROFL Amy about the 4.7.
I’ve been meaning to do something like that for a while.
I’ve been meaning to do a lot of things for a while… lol
Thanks for the tip!