I have a list containing information on the user’s web browser. The list was generated by PHP through a user requirements survey. The output looks like this: (sample):
- Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0)
- Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/535.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/18.0.1025.152 Safari/535.19
- Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 9.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/5.0)
- Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)
- Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:11.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/11.0
- Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_7_3) AppleWebKit/535.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/18.0.1025.151 Safari/535.19
- Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 6.0; U; da) Presto/2.10.229 Version/11.62
- Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; CPU OS 5_0_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/534.46 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.1 Mobile/9A405 Safari/7534.48.3
- Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 5_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/534.46 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.1 Mobile/9B179 Safari/7534.48.3
- Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:14.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/14.0
Which is the actual web browser? According to the PHP manual, it would be
[parent], [platform], [browser], [version], but why does it say Safari and Chrome in one row, and why does “MSIE” appear inside the brackets?
These things identify the user agent. But it looks like per platform or something the layout is a bit different.
I don’t know what you would want to do with them but maybe this is of any help; http://www.useragentstring.com/
They also have an API with which you can get all the info you want.