Fair enough. I need to do user analytics.

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On May 1, 2013, at 3:55 PM, Anthony Ferrara <ircmax...@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?
> 
> Anthony
> 
> 
> On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 3:51 PM, Federico Ulfo <rainelemen...@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.
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> 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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