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Sabbir345's avatar

How to get exact browser name and version in Laravel 5.5?

I have used this $device=$request->header('User-Agent'); But while I dd() the output I get something like this

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/50.0.2661.102 Safari/537.36

How do I get actual browser details?

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jlrdw's avatar

Have you tried a print_r instead.

Cronix's avatar

With php's get_browser().

$browserDetails = get_browser($request->header('User-Agent'), true);
dd($browserDetails);

produces something like:

    [browser_name_regex] => ^mozilla/5\.0 (windows; .; windows nt 5\.1; .*rv:.*) gecko/.* firefox/0\.9.*$
    [browser_name_pattern] => Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; ?; Windows NT 5.1; *rv:*) Gecko/* Firefox/0.9*
    [parent] => Firefox 0.9
    [platform] => WinXP
    [browser] => Firefox
    [version] => 0.9
    [majorver] => 0
    [minorver] => 9
    [cssversion] => 2
    [frames] => 1
    [iframes] => 1
    [tables] => 1
    [cookies] => 1
    [backgroundsounds] =>
    [vbscript] =>
    [javascript] => 1
    [javaapplets] => 1
    [activexcontrols] =>
    [cdf] =>
    [aol] =>
    [beta] => 1
    [win16] =>
    [crawler] =>
    [stripper] =>
    [wap] =>
    [netclr] =>

http://php.net/manual/en/function.get-browser.php

Sabbir345's avatar

i used get_browser(). but show errors

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