Code to parse user agent string?

Question

As strange as I find this, I have not been able to find a good PHP function anywhere which will do an intelligent parse of a user agent string? Googled it for about 20 minut

Answer 1

The get_browser() function has been available in PHP for quite a long a time.

The PHP manual is free, can be downloaded in various formats and viewed online (with comments)

Answer 2

There is a PHP class library i found out, and it has worked so well for me. It is in the link below.

https://www.toms-world.org/blog/parseuseragentstring

It is lightweight and just does what I wanted (Browser, Version, OS, Mobile/PC, and much more) in a memory-friendy manner.

Answer 3

You can try to use: https://github.com/tobie/ua-parser. This is multi-language tool to parsing user agent string. For PHP is here: https://github.com/tobie/ua-parser/tree/master/php

Answer 4

Try out ThaDafinser/UserAgentParser it's an abstraction for many available user agent parsers.

So if you are not happy with one - just switch to another (or combine them)

You can try it out here

Answer 5

https://github.com/browscap/browscap-php - this is a standalone library that aims to replace get_browser function. For shared hostings it seems to be a better option.

Works on: PHP 5