Browser

Browser is PHP port of the popular jQuery browser plugin. It can detect browser name, version and platform. Additionally, mobile and desktop browsers are recognized.

Installation

Just include the Browser.php library

require_once 'Browser.php';

Usage

Returns true if the current useragent is some version of Microsoft's Internet Explorer and false otherwise. Supports all IE versions including IE11

Browser::get()->msie;

Returns true if the current useragent is some version of a WebKit browser (Safari, Chrome and Opera 15+) and false otherwise.

Browser::get()->webkit;

Returns true if the current useragent is some version of Firefox and false otherwise.

Browser::get()->mozilla;

Reading the browser verion

Browser::get()->version;

• Detect Windows, Mac, Linux, iPad, iPhone, Android, Chrome OS, and Windows Phone useragents, in addition to desktop and mobile browsers in the same manner as shown by the examples above.

Browser::get()->ipad
Browser::get()->iphone
Browser::get()->{"windows phone"}
Browser::get()->android
Browser::get()->cros
Browser::get()->win
Browser::get()->mac
Browser::get()->linux
Browser::get()->desktop
Browser::get()->mobile

	// User Agent for Firefox on Windows
	User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:25.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/25.0
	
	Browser::get()->desktop // Returns true as a boolean

	// User Agent for Safari on iPhone
	User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0(iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 7_0_3 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/537.51.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/7.0 Mobile/11B508 Safari/9537.53
	
	Browser::get()->mobile // Returns true as a boolean

• Detect the browser's major version

	// User Agent for Chrome
	// Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_9_0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/32.0.1664.3 Safari/537.36
	
	Browser::get()->versionNumber // Returns 32 as a number

• Analyze custom user agent (from access logs for example):

	$userAgent = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_9_0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/32.0.1664.3 Safari/537.36';
	
	Browser::get($userAgent)->name // Returns chrome

Development

• Source hosted at GitHub
• Report issues, questions, feature requests on GitHub Issues
• Examples and original implementation on GitHub