conditional inside td tag to perform php scripts

Question

Im trying to perform two different scripts depending on if its IE11 or not

Consider the following pseudo code

<td>
  if IE11 
    perform  IE11_Code
  else
    perform  other_code
  end if
</td>

How can I archive this.

Detecting IE11 apparently works like this.

var isAtLeastIE11 = !!(navigator.userAgent.match(/Trident/) && !navigator.userAgent.match(/MSIE/));

But to use this in the conditional baffles me.

EDIT: forget about the fact that I want to use php in there somewhere.

PHP runs on server, Javascript on the browser, they can not run at the same time. — epascarello, Sep 29 '17 at 13:11
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5302302/php-if-internet-explorer-6-7-8-or-9 — epascarello, Sep 29 '17 at 13:12
yeah, I get that. its in the creation phase. It all works fine, but for each browser I need to execute a different line, thats all. — morne, Sep 29 '17 at 13:13
So you have to detect it on the server or you have to detect it on the client, than make an Ajax call to get it. — epascarello, Sep 29 '17 at 13:13

MattDiMu · Accepted Answer · 2017-09-29T13:31:00.060

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You need to detect the browser on the server side using the HTTP-Header User-Agent, which is basically the same as the one used on the client-side when using navigator.userAgent in JavaScript.

I'm not a php expert, but it should work somehow like this:

<?php
  $userAgent = $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'];
  if(preg_match('/Trident/', $userAgent) ) {
    ...
  }
?>

edited Sep 29 '17 at 13:31

answered Sep 29 '17 at 13:22

MattDiMu

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"Conditional Comments only work in Internet Explorer on the client side" — They don't work in IE11 and the question doesn't mention them. – Quentin Sep 29 '17 at 13:26
@Quentin you're right, i was somehow reminded of conditional comments because of the word "conditional" and the the peusdo code :) – MattDiMu Sep 29 '17 at 13:30
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Did not know you could get the user browser from php, Thanks mate. – morne Sep 29 '17 at 13:47

conditional inside td tag to perform php scripts

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