Question

I am trying to setup a PHP snippet that checks if 2 conditions are met and if they are, it echoes some text. The conditions are:

1. That the query string equals a certain value.
2. That the browser is Firefox.

It’s checking the query string properly but, it doesnt seem to be working for the browser (user agent). See below:

<?php

function get_user_browser()
{
    $u_agent = $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'];
    $ub = '';
    if(preg_match('/Firefox/i',$u_agent))
    {
        $ub = "firefox";
    }
    else
    {
        $ub = "other";
    }

} 

if (isset($_GET['print']) && $_GET['print'] != "" && $ub = 'firefox') 
{
    $pg = $_GET['print'];
    if (!file_exists('1')) 
    {
        echo '<b>It worked!</b>';
    }
}
else 
{
    echo '';
}

?> 

Any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

This is what i do to check out that stuff:

if(strlen(strstr($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'],"Firefox")) <= 0 ){ // if not firefox

  //do something

}

And added into your code:

function get_user_browser()
{
    $u_agent = $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'];
    $ub = '';
    if(strlen(strstr($u_agent,"Firefox")) > 0 ){ 

      $ub = 'firefox';

    }
    else {
      $ub = 'other';
    }

    return $ub;
} 

if (isset($_GET['print']) && $_GET['print'] != "" 
                          && get_user_browser() == 'firefox') 
{
    $pg = $_GET['print'];
    if (!file_exists('1')) 
    {
        echo '<b>It worked!</b>';
    }
}
else 
{
    echo '';
}