Comments on: future use: browser and OS info

By: Tobias

Tobias — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

a hit-tracker? Don't really need that, there's already a kick-ass one out there: PHLOGGER

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

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!

By: Tobias

Tobias — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

hehehehe, so what info exactly would that be?

By: Amy

Amy — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

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.

By: Lynda

Lynda — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

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!