Get information about the visitor browser
The elxisBrowserHelper class is an Elxis Helper that returns information about the visitor's browser. You can provide as input to the helper a user agent string or you can let it detect it.
As all Elxis helpers, the browser helper is accessible via the obj method of the elxisFramework class.
eFactory::getElxis()->obj('browser')
To get the browser information:
<?php
//detect user agent
$browser_info = $elxis->obj('browser')->getBrowser();
//or provide a custom user agent to check:
$browser_info = $elxis->obj('browser')->getBrowser($user_agent);
?>
The returned $browser_info is an array having the following elements.
- agent The user agent string
- browser The browser name (eg. Firefox)
- version The browser's version (eg. 4.0.1)
- platform The general name of the operating system. Windows, Linux, Mac, etc
- os Operating system short name (eg. nt)
- os_version Operating system version (eg. 6)
- os_name User friendly Operating system name (eg. Windows Vista)
- mobile True if it is a mobile device, else false
- robot True if it is a web crawler like google, else false
- aol True if it is an AOL (America Online) browser, else false
- aol_version The AOL browser version (if it is an AOL browser)
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