Browser Version And OS Version Detection Plugin
- Clone/Copy the files in this directory into
app/plugins/browser_version - Include the Browser Helper in your controller:
var $helpers = array('Browser.Browser');
This Plugin offers a number of wrapper functions for these two great external libraries:
Chris Schuld's Browser Class
(http://chrisschuld.com/)
Harald Hope's Full Featured PHP Browser/OS detection
(http://techpatterns.com/downloads/php_browser_detection.php
The method $browser->checkBrowserVersionPlatform() is a combination of the libraries' methods into one to give the ability to narrow down to a specific browser, browser version, os, and os version. Will return true if the browser matches the given arguments. The browser version is a max check, so any version earlier than $maxVersionToCheck will also pass. If you just use checkBrowserVersionPlatform(), it will default to check for Windows XP IE 7.0 or lower, true if it matches, false if not:
$browser->checkBrowserVersionPlatform() //defaults are equal to:
$browser->checkBrowserVersionPlatform(7, 'Internet Explorer', 'Windows', 'XP');
details of passed checkBrowserVersionPlatform() vars are here, more detailed comments can be found in the Helper itself:
$maxVersionToCheck set a maximum version number (eg 7.0)
$browserToCheck default is Internet Explorer
$platformToCheck default is Windows
$OSVersion default is XP, set to null to not check version
Example useage without defaults, returns true if match, false otherwise:
$browser->checkBrowserVersionPlatform(9, 'Internet Explorer', 'Windows', 'Vista');
Also comes with a handy Warning message element catered to users running Windows XP and IE 7.
lists of OS's and Browsers can be found in the library classes' comments.
1.3` are compatible with CakePHP 1.3.x. could probably easily be converted to 2.0 if naming conventions are applied.