I'm building a laravel application where I want to keep track of client browser details such as browser name. How do I do it using Laravel ?
public function postUser(Request $request)
{
$user = new User();
$user->name = $request->Input(['name']);
$device= $request->header('User-Agent');
dd($device);
$user->save();
return redirect('userSavePage');
}
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?
First add the package to your composer:
{
"require": {
"hisorange/browser-detect": "2.*" // For laravel 5.* versions
"hisorange/browser-detect": "1.*" // For laravel 4.* versions
}
}
After the composer update/install add the service provider to your app.php:
'providers' => array(
// ...
'hisorange\BrowserDetect\Provider\BrowserDetectService',
// ...
)
Add the alias to the aliases in your app.php:
'aliases' => array(
// ...
'BrowserDetect' => 'hisorange\BrowserDetect\Facade\Parser',
)
You must use personal configurations, just publish the package's configuration files, (plugins.php also published with this)
php artisan vendor:publish
You can get result informations by simply call on the facade.
// You can always get the result object from the facade if you wish to operate with it.
BrowserDetect::detect(); // Will resolve and return with the 'browser.result' container.
// Calls are mirrored to the result object for easier use.
BrowserDetect::browserVersion(); // return '3.6' string.
// Supporting human readable formats.
BrowserDetect::browserName(); // return 'Firefox 3.6' string.
// Or can be objective.
BrowserDetect::browserFamily(); // return 'Firefox' string.
For details: https://github.com/hisorange/browser-detect
I ended using the faster, and simpler way:
$request->header('User-Agent');
Hope it helps someone!
Use Agent
which let you detect user browser and platform and also browser's/platform's version
In the new version you can also detect the robots.
In addition to the explanations from here, in order to detect the Rest API consumers like Postman and Insomnia, i merged with this answer and ended up having the following source code that performed better in my scenario
Route::get('browser', function () {
//create new agent instance
$agent = new Jenssegers\Agent\Agent();
//check if agent is robot
if ($agent->isRobot()) {
return $agent->robot();
}
//if agent is not robot then get agent browser and platform like Chrome in Linux
$agent = $agent->browser() . " in " . $agent->platform();
//if agent browser and platform not obtained, then we check the agent technology
if ($agent == ' in ') {
$agent = request()->header('User-Agent');
}
return $agent;});
So from the code above, i can detect browser, platform, robot and rest consumers like Postman and Insomnia.