{"id":491,"date":"2014-05-21T22:54:01","date_gmt":"2014-05-21T21:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.muratyaman.co.uk\/wp\/?p=491"},"modified":"2020-04-01T12:34:09","modified_gmt":"2020-04-01T11:34:09","slug":"php-get_browser-function-to-detect-users-os-and-browser-details","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.muratyaman.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/2014\/05\/php-get_browser-function-to-detect-users-os-and-browser-details\/","title":{"rendered":"PHP get_browser function to detect user&#8217;s OS and browser details"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just lost a day because of this stupid browser_name_regex property:<\/p>\n<p>e.g. &#8220;\u00a7^mozilla\/5\\.0 \\(.*windows nt 6\\.1.*wow64.*\\) gecko\/.* firefox\/29\\.0.*$\u00a7&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To replicate the issue and work around bloody &#8216;\u00a7&#8217; character, please see below.<br \/>\nWhose idea was it to use that character?!<\/p>\n<pre lang=\"php\">\r\n$ua = $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'];\r\necho '$_SERVER[\\'HTTP_USER_AGENT\\'] => \"' . $ua . '\"<br \/>';\r\n\r\n$browser = get_browser($ua);\r\necho 'get_browser($ua) => <'.'pre>';\r\nvar_dump($browser);\r\necho '<\/'.'pre><br \/>';\r\n\r\n$json = json_encode($browser, JSON_PRETTY_PRINT);\r\necho 'json_encode($browser) => <'.'pre>';\r\necho $json;\r\necho '<\/'.'pre><br \/>';\r\n\r\necho 'json_last_error() => \"' . json_last_error() . '\"<'.'br \/>';\r\n\r\n\/\/echo 'unsetting $browser->browser_name_regex <br \/>';\r\n\/\/unset($browser->browser_name_regex);\r\n\/\/or\r\necho '$browser->browser_name_regex = utf8_encode($browser->browser_name_regex);<br \/>';\r\n$browser->browser_name_regex = utf8_encode($browser->browser_name_regex);\r\n\r\n$json = json_encode($browser, JSON_PRETTY_PRINT);\r\necho 'json_encode($browser) => <'.'pre>';\r\necho $json;\r\necho '<\/'.'pre><br \/>';\r\n\r\necho 'json_last_error() => \"' . json_last_error() . '\"';\r\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just lost a day because of this stupid browser_name_regex property &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-php"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muratyaman.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muratyaman.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muratyaman.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muratyaman.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muratyaman.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.muratyaman.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":942,"href":"https:\/\/www.muratyaman.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions\/942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muratyaman.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muratyaman.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muratyaman.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}