Plugin: Browser Sniff

It shows the stylesheet in the code in FF3 on XP. Am I behind on the version? Running v1.2.

Have you checked the output for both browsers with this code:

{exp:browser_sniff}
Browser name: {browser_name}

Browser version: {browser_version}
{/exp:browser_sniff}

No, but how would that relate to the issue?

It would let you more easily see where the glitch is if you knew how the plugin was reporting both browsers.

Hi,

Using the same exact code:

{exp:browser_sniff}
{if browser_name=="saf"}
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="all" href="{stylesheet=include/safari}" />
{/if}
{/exp:browser_sniff}

It shows the stylesheet in the code in FF3 on XP. Am I behind on the version? Running v1.2.

Trying your code with Firefox 3 on Windows XP I was unable to replicate the effect you described. That is, the result was as expected - no output.

The issue is not somehow connected with version 1.2 because all versions of Browser Sniff plugin use exactly the same code for browser recognition.

Is it possible that your template code is cached and that’s the reason why you get the same results for both browsers?

Is it possible that your template code is cached and that’s the reason why you get the same results for both browsers?

That should not be the reason.

Browser Sniff plugin recognizes which browser is used by parsing $_SERVER[‘HTTP_USER_AGENT’] variable. Plugin outputs {browser_name} as “saf” in case $_SERVER[‘HTTP_USER_AGENT’] variable converted to lowercase contains substring “safari” and it outputs {browser_name} as “moz” in case $_SERVER[‘HTTP_USER_AGENT’] variable converted to lowercase contains substring “gecko”.

Here is what $_SERVER[‘HTTP_USER_AGENT’] variable outputs in case browser is Firefox 3 on Vista:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070208 Firefox/3.0.1

Here is what $_SERVER[‘HTTP_USER_AGENT’] variable outputs in case browser is Firefox 3 on XP:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070208 Firefox/3.0.1

As you can see there is no substring “safari”. This is the reason why the code

{exp:browser_sniff}
{if browser_name=="saf"}
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="all" href="{stylesheet=include/safari}" />
{/if}
{/exp:browser_sniff}

outputs nothing, as it should, both for Firefox 3 on Vista and on XP.

Hmmm… Interesting. Going to have to look in to why it’s still showing for me. In retrospect, I have it in an embed, so it may be EE parsing order between the template, embed, plug-in and the conditional statement.

Have you thought about extending this to support mobile browser sniffing? I’ve found a gazillion different chunks of PHP that purport to figure out whether the user’s on a mobile or not so they can be redirected to the right pages and/or styled differently. That would be a useful addition.

Have you thought about extending this to support mobile browser sniffing? I’ve found a gazillion different chunks of PHP that purport to figure out whether the user’s on a mobile or not so they can be redirected to the right pages and/or styled differently. That would be a useful addition.

Currently Browser Sniff plugin is quite weak. It recognizes several most known browsers and that’s all.

It would be good to extent its capabilities. One possible solution would be to base Browser Sniff plugin on CodeIgniter’s User Agent class.

Unfortunately as yet I have no experience in CodeIgniter’s framework. I will consider this when ExpressionEngine 2.0 based on CodeIgniter will be released and when I will upgrade my plugins to be compatible with it.

Heh. I see what you mean. That would make things much simpler 😊

Fantastic usefull plug-in. This saves lot’s of work. Thanks!!

Hi,

I released version 1.3 of Browser Sniff plugin.

In this release a basic OS detection was added. In order to output OS you should use {os} variable.

Possible values of {os} variable are: win (windows), mac (Macintosh), linux (Linux), other (other OS).

Thanks, just what I needed!

Laisvunas,

Thanks for this plugin, it has helped me to gain compatibility between browsers really well. Great piece of work and thank you!

Appreciate it.

Cheers, Mark.