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[Anthony Ferrara]

The best way to do browser detection is to not do it. It's unreliable and
difficult to even come close to trying it.

Why do you want detection?

Anthony


On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 3:51 PM, Federico Ulfo <rainelemental at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi all, how do you solve the problem of the browser detection?
>
> The PHP built in function get_browser() doesn't seams to work very well,
> it's slow and inaccurate, it also need a huge browscap.ini file to be
> loaded and updated, and looks like isn't maintained really well.
>
> The most accurate library I've found uses the user-agent-string.info API,
> which isn't very fast, and it doesn't tell the device type, such as iPhone,
> iPad, Android, etc.
>
> Not satisfacted by the available solutions I've decided to create a
> library that with dependency injection loads other parser, so it's flexible
> and accurate. The library, Sail\Useragent, is open source and available on
> packagist:
> https://github.com/rainphp/useragent
>
>
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