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PHP substring comparisons...what kinds are there?

Aug 3rd, 2007

I'm working on a php-built report that's supposed to be printed out. It may be used on IE, it may be used on Firefox, I'm not sure which and have no control over the issue. Differences in the output formatting of the two browsers mean I have to be able to trim the report at different places in order to keep everything looking neat. (Firefox should print landscape with 8 records per page, IE portrait with 10.)

I've found out about the HTTP_USER_AGENT variable. But, with both the strstr command and the stristr command, I can't seem to extract 'Firefox' from the Firefox user agent string, which shows up on echo as "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.12) Gecko/20070508 Firefox/1.5.0.12".

The word Firefox is in there; I can see it. So why can my comparisons not seem to find it? And if the strstr and stristr functions don't see it, are there other php functions that might?

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Re: PHP substring comparisons...what kinds are there?

Aug 3rd, 2007

You might check your usage of the strstr() function, it may be a simple typo or something. The following works fine for me.

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<?php
$s = "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.12) Gecko/20070508 Firefox/1.5.0.12";
echo ($found=strstr($s,"Firefox")) ? $found : "(not found)";
echo "<br>Firefox position: ".strpos($s,"Firefox");
 
echo "<br>Firefox removed..<br>";
 
$s = "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.12) Gecko/20070508 /1.5.0.12";
echo ($found=strstr($s,"Firefox")) ? $found : "(not found)";
echo "<br>Firefox position: ".strpos($s,"Firefox");
?>
<?php
$s = "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.12) Gecko/20070508 Firefox/1.5.0.12";
echo ($found=strstr($s,"Firefox")) ? $found : "(not found)";
echo "<br>Firefox position: ".strpos($s,"Firefox");

echo "<br>Firefox removed..<br>";

$s = "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.12) Gecko/20070508 /1.5.0.12";
echo ($found=strstr($s,"Firefox")) ? $found : "(not found)";
echo "<br>Firefox position: ".strpos($s,"Firefox");
?>

preg_match() is always an option if you need more complicated parsing.

Edit: The above was just a knock-up test demo - not my suggestion for code to check browser type

Last edited by Ezzaral; Aug 3rd, 2007 at 6:31 pm.

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Re: PHP substring comparisons...what kinds are there?

Aug 3rd, 2007

Or you can also try this script:

- http://mikecherim.com/experiments/su...r_sniffer.phps

Basically it uses eregi function to identify browsers and platforms. Bye