PHP Laravel : How to get client browser/ Device?

Question

I\'m building a laravel application where I want to keep track of client browser details such as browser name. How do I do it using Laravel ?

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Answer 1

First add the package to your composer:

{
    "require": {
        "hisorange/browser-detect": "2.*" // For laravel 5.* versions
        "hisorange/browser-detect": "1.*" // For laravel 4.* versions
    }
}

After the composer update/install add the service provider to your app.php:

'providers' => array(
    // ...
    'hisorange\BrowserDetect\Provider\BrowserDetectService',
    // ...
)

Add the alias to the aliases in your app.php:

'aliases' => array(
    // ...
    'BrowserDetect' => 'hisorange\BrowserDetect\Facade\Parser',
)

You must use personal configurations, just publish the package's configuration files, (plugins.php also published with this)

php artisan vendor:publish

You can get result informations by simply call on the facade.

// You can always get the result object from the facade if you wish to operate with it.
BrowserDetect::detect(); // Will resolve and return with the 'browser.result' container.

// Calls are mirrored to the result object for easier use.
BrowserDetect::browserVersion(); // return '3.6' string.

// Supporting human readable formats.
BrowserDetect::browserName(); // return 'Firefox 3.6' string.

// Or can be objective.
BrowserDetect::browserFamily(); // return 'Firefox' string.

For details: https://github.com/hisorange/browser-detect

Answer 2

Use Agent

which let you detect user browser and platform and also browser's/platform's version

https://medium.com/@panjeh/laravel-detector-mobile-browser-name-version-platform-device-robot-crawler-user-language-8499bee7607c

In the new version you can also detect the robots.

Answer 3

In addition to the explanations from here, in order to detect the Rest API consumers like Postman and Insomnia, i merged with this answer and ended up having the following source code that performed better in my scenario

Route::get('browser', function () {

//create new agent instance
$agent = new Jenssegers\Agent\Agent();

//check if agent is robot
if ($agent->isRobot()) {
    return $agent->robot();
}
//if agent is not robot then get agent browser and platform like Chrome in Linux
$agent = $agent->browser() . " in " . $agent->platform();
//if agent browser and platform not obtained, then we check the agent technology
if ($agent == ' in ') {
    $agent =  request()->header('User-Agent');
}
return $agent;});

So from the code above, i can detect browser, platform, robot and rest consumers like Postman and Insomnia.

Answer 4

I ended using the faster, and simpler way:

$request->header('User-Agent');

Hope it helps someone!

Answer 5

With latest version of BrowserDetect package, you can get browser information as below:

Install using below command:

composer require hisorange/browser-detect

Once installed, add dependency in config/app.php file.

Add below line in providers array.

hisorange\BrowserDetect\ServiceProvider::class,

Add below line in alias array.

'BrowserDetect' => hisorange\BrowserDetect\Facade::class,

Include package in any class file as below to use:

use BrowserDetect;

After this you can access BrowserDetect methods as explained in below package link:

BrowserDetect package link