User Browser Device Info PHP
January 4, 2025 ยท AI Conversations
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You can get user browser and device information in PHP using the `$_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']` variable, which contains the user agent string sent by the browser. To parse this string into readable information about the browser and device, you can use libraries like [Mobile-Detect](https://github.com/serbanghita/Mobile-Detect) or a custom function.
Here's an example using Mobile-Detect:
### 1. **Install Mobile-Detect**
If you're using Composer, run:
composer require mobiledetect/mobiledetectlib
### 2. **Use Mobile-Detect in Your Code**
<?php
require 'vendor/autoload.php';
use Mobile_Detect;
$detect = new Mobile_Detect();
// Get user agent
$userAgent = $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'];
// Detect device type
if ($detect->isMobile()) {
$device = 'Mobile';
} elseif ($detect->isTablet()) {
$device = 'Tablet';
} else {
$device = 'Desktop';
}
// Detect browser
$browser = 'Unknown';
if (strpos($userAgent, 'Firefox') !== false) {
$browser = 'Firefox';
} elseif (strpos($userAgent, 'Chrome') !== false) {
$browser = 'Chrome';
} elseif (strpos($userAgent, 'Safari') !== false) {
$browser = 'Safari';
} elseif (strpos($userAgent, 'MSIE') !== false || strpos($userAgent, 'Trident') !== false) {
$browser = 'Internet Explorer';
}
// Output
echo "Device: $devicen";
echo "Browser: $browsern";
echo "User Agent: $userAgentn";
?>
### 3. **Output Example**
For a user visiting the site on Chrome on a desktop:
Device: Desktop
Browser: Chrome
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/114.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
### Notes
– Parsing the `User-Agent` string manually can be error-prone since user agents vary widely. Libraries like Mobile-Detect simplify this process.
– For more detailed browser detection, consider using libraries like `Browscap` or online APIs like [DeviceAtlas](https://deviceatlas.com/).