PHP if is chrome on windows

Question

I'm doing some PHP includes depending on browser, and need to target Chrome on Windows

I've got this to target all IE browsers (MSIE) is there some way I can also target Chrome for Windows?

if (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']) && 
(strpos($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'], 'MSIE') !== false))
    return true;

UA sniffing is so unreliable as to be basically pointless. If you feel you must do it anyway, [`get_browser()`](http://php.net/manual/en/function.get-browser.php) is the "right" way to do it. — DaveRandom, Aug 17 '12 at 20:44
DaveRandom, why is it so unreliable? I'm just learning about it... — RooWM, Aug 17 '12 at 21:43
possible duplicate of [reliable user browser detection with php](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2257597/reliable-user-browser-detection-with-php) — Jürgen Thelen, Aug 18 '12 at 23:01

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 17 '12 at 20:44

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If possible, your best bet would be to configure browsecap in php.ini and use the get_browser() function to determine the user agent and platform.

I just checked Chrome's user agent on a Windows PC and you can probably match against this:

function isChrome($user_agent) {
    return stripos($user_agent, 'chrome') !== false &&
           stripos($user_agent, 'win') !== false);
}

answered Aug 17 '12 at 20:44

drew010

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The user agent you want to check, probably `$_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']` if its set. – drew010 Aug 17 '12 at 20:53

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 17 '12 at 20:43

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Try get_browser()

<?php
$browser = get_browser(null, true);
print_r($browser);
?>

answered Aug 17 '12 at 20:43

ADev

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 17 '12 at 20:43

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Your code is just looking to see if the user agent string contains "MSIE". You can do the same check for "Chrome", since that's going to be present in the chrome user agent string.

see: http://www.useragentstring.com/pages/Chrome/

answered Aug 17 '12 at 20:43

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Aug 17 '12 at 20:52

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try:

if (strpos($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'], 'Chrome') !== false &&    
(preg_match('/windows|win32/i', $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'])))
{
// Windows and Chrome 
}

answered Aug 17 '12 at 20:52

DannyCruzeira

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PHP if is chrome on windows

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