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[Rainelemental]

Fair enough. I need to do user analytics.

From my iPhone

On May 1, 2013, at 3:55 PM, Anthony Ferrara <ircmaxell at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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?
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> Anthony
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> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> 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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