Display Browser Information?

[Gene Steinberg]

I did a search of the usual text strings here and failed to turn up anything.

Is there an add-on/hack/whatever that allows you to display information about what browser/OS the member is using as part of the information that's displayed in their messages?

I'd want a vBulletin 3.7x compatible solution.

Anyone?

[Dismounted]

You can use the user agent string - but don't trust it.

[Gene Steinberg]

Originally Posted by Dismounted

You can use the user agent string - but don't trust it.

What and how?

[Dismounted]

You'll need some knowledge of PHP - if you do, Googling "user agent string php" will probably reveal some code examples.

[Gene Steinberg]

Originally Posted by Dismounted

You'll need some knowledge of PHP - if you do, Googling "user agent string php" will probably reveal some code examples.

The reason I posted it here was to get just that information and the best way to implement it in vBulletin.

Anyone here want to really help me?

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I do have some code now that I got online, as follows:

PHP Code:

<?php
echo ( browser_detection( 'number' ) .'<br>'. 
browser_detection( 'browser' ) .'<br>'.  
browser_detection( 'os' ) .'<br>'.  
browser_detection( 'os_number' ) ); 
?>

Outputs (browser version, browser, os, os number): 
1.5
moz
nt
5.1

<?php
if ( ( browser_detection( 'browser' ) == 'ie' ) 
&& 
( browser_detection( 'number' ) >= 5 ) )
{
echo 'it is Internet Explorer ' . 
browser_detection( 'number' );
// or anything else you want to happen of course
}
?>

OK, this goes in a postbit template? Which one? Where?

Will it do what I want?

[Dismounted]

Yuou cannot run PHP code in templates - yo need run PHP code in plugins. And furthermore - you need to capture this data as the user browses the website and store it. You cannot simply plonk that code in postbit and have the information magically appear for everyone.

[Gene Steinberg]

Originally Posted by Dismounted

Yuou cannot run PHP code in templates - yo need run PHP code in plugins. And furthermore - you need to capture this data as the user browses the website and store it. You cannot simply plonk that code in postbit and have the information magically appear for everyone.

So, then, when you implied otherwise in your original message, that wasn't quite correct. OK.

So how do we do it then. Anyone want to provide assistance rather than give me two sides of the coin?

[RLShare]

How did he imply anything. He stated you can use the user agent string to grab the data. WHICH IS TRUE. But you cannot simultaniously grab useragents of all people that have ever browsed the website and magically send them to all other people browsing the website to have them show up in the postbit. The data you gather needs to be stored somewhere so you can retrieve it to display later.

[Gene Steinberg]

He said I should look on the Internet to find the PHP code, then said it wouldn't work as I wanted it to. I understand the limits.

How about a solution instead of an insult?

[Opserty]

Why not just create a Custom "User Profile Field", allow users to select their browser and then display that in postbit?

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