Comments on: PHP Browser Detection

By: Tsem

Tsem — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 03:08:18 +0000

Thanks for the response, unfortunately I think I am running into the issue where wordpress does not execute php statements inserted into the body.

would anyone have a real example of how this is done in context of what should be entered in the page edit mode?

By: marty

marty — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 17:46:29 +0000

Unfortunately php code does not show up very well in the comments.
But you would just use the if statements provided to test for an iphone

if ( is_iphone() ) :
-Show a Quicktime movie-
else :
-Show a flash movie-
endif;

You’ll have to use the included examples or look up php if statements for help with the correct formatting.

By: Tsem

Tsem — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 16:34:55 +0000

Hi there, this looks like exactly what we need!

We’d like to use the ability mentioned “Display different content or custom messages anywhere on the page, or to swap out flash for an image for iPhones.”

Could you give me a summary of how to do this in a wordpress page to display alternate content for iphone users?

Thanks!

By: Marty

Marty — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 20:29:21 +0000

Hi Toby,

Not letting me post code here in comments.

See addition to post above.

Marty

By: Toby

Toby — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 20:04:21 +0000

Sorry for being a dunce here but can someone post an example of a conditional statement that loads an alternate CSS file in WordPress? Would that go in header.php? I keep crashing my blog when trying to use this.

http://www.festival.si.edu/blog/

Thanks!
Toby

By: Marty

Marty — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 08:15:24 +0000

Thanks. Glad it is helping. Tests for sub versions was definitely next. But you saved me some time it looks like. I will be adding a test for JavaScript as well.

By: Bedo

Bedo — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 07:47:25 +0000

Hi Marty, really cool plugin, exactly what I was searching for, however I needed to detect the firefox subversions as well (because of the new css3 features)

Here the code :

´function is_firefox_3 (){
$browserInfo = php_browser_info();
if(isset($browserInfo['browser']) && $browserInfo['browser']==’Firefox’ && $browserInfo['version'] == 3)
return true;
return false;
}
function is_firefox_3_5 (){
$browserInfo = php_browser_info();
if(isset($browserInfo['browser']) && $browserInfo['browser']==’Firefox’ && $browserInfo['version'] == 3.5)
return true;
return false;
}
function is_firefox_3_6 (){
$browserInfo = php_browser_info();
if(isset($browserInfo['browser']) && $browserInfo['browser']==’Firefox’ && $browserInfo['version'] == 3.6)
return true;
return false;
}´

You could may consider this in the next release, maybe it will help somebody else as well.

Cheers

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By: Marty

Marty — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 05:08:23 +0000

Hey Joseph,

Thanks for the heads-up. After a quick Google search I found the answer. The issue is with a change in the way the ‘parse_ini_file()’ function called on line 116 of the plugin works in php 5.3.

I guess 5.3 reads a semi-colon on that line 49 of php_browscap.ini and gets tripped up. To fix, replace this from line 116 of php-browser-detection.php:

————————————————
$brows=parse_ini_file(realpath($browscap),true);
————————————————

with this:

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if (version_compare(PHP_VERSION, ’5.3.0′) >= 0) {
$brows = parse_ini_file(realpath($browscap), true, INI_SCANNER_RAW);
}else{
$brows = parse_ini_file(realpath($browscap),true);
}
——————-
For the full explanation, you can read the forum post here: http://code.google.com/p/phpbrowscap/issues/detail?id=11.

You got to me just in time before I upload to the WordPress repository for version 1.0 of the plugin.

Thanks!