Retrieve browser and OS in PHP

Question

I need to retrieve the browser and OS through php coding.

I had used $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'], but its shows the following

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; IEMB3)

How can I separate the browser and OS from the above received value?

Please guide me..

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

You could use the Google code Browscap class. It essentially does the same thing as PHP's get_browser(), but you don't have to worry about keeping your browscap.ini up to date.

This worked for me:

require('Browscap.php');
$browscap = new Browscap('/path/to/cache');
var_dump($browscap->getBrowser());

Answer 2

Just use the built in function for this http://ie.php.net/manual/en/function.get-browser.php