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musya
12 Mar, 2008 - 07:25 AM
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Hello, I am working on a website template to work with Joomla, but the problem I have been having is with the CSS so I decided to have 3 different ones,
1. IE
2. FF
3. SF

But I am not the best at php and all of the scripts I found for browser detection wouldnt work, so I know there is a policy here about show work first then we'll help you, well I dont know what to show other than the template but I'm at work and I cant do that, plus that would have nothing to do with this I wouldnt think.
So if you guys can help point me in the right direction that would be greatly appreciated.

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12 Mar, 2008 - 08:04 AM
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Maybe this article can help
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12 Mar, 2008 - 08:28 AM
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QUOTE(1lacca @ 12 Mar, 2008 - 09:04 AM) *

Maybe this article can help


Thanks, I appreciate it.
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12 Mar, 2008 - 09:04 AM
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You may also be interested in conditional comments. You can input special instructions for IE.

<!--[if IE>
<!-- Special instructions here -->
<![endif]-->

You can also target different versions of IE, or enable instructions if it's not IE. This is generally better than a script / coding browser detection, since in my experience all major browsers work like Firefox except for IE --- and that said, 95% of the market uses IE or FF

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms537512.aspx
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12 Mar, 2008 - 09:14 AM
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True, and there are other CSS hacks to aim special browsers, but as I saw nowadays this practice is not encouraged (however it can come handy, that's for sure) .
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12 Mar, 2008 - 09:26 AM
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QUOTE(1lacca @ 12 Mar, 2008 - 10:14 AM) *

True, and there are other CSS hacks to aim special browsers, but as I saw nowadays this practice is not encouraged (however it can come handy, that's for sure) .


The most famous of these would probably be the holly hack, which plays off of IE's insistance that there's an element above "html"....
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* html {.....


which takes priority in the cascade because of the star in front.

But that doesn't work in IE7 and probably not 8
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13 Mar, 2008 - 04:58 AM
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There's a much better way to detect browsers.
I use it all the time.
Follow these steps:
  • First, download a copy of browscap.ini file from the PHP website.
  • Place it into your PHP directory.
  • Add the following line to your php.ini file:
    [browscap]
    browscap = "<path>/browscap.ini"
  • Restart your Server.
  • Use the get_browser() function to get Browser details.
Here's an example of the get_browser() function taken from the PHP documentation:
php

<?php
echo $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'] . "\n\n";

$browser = get_browser(null, true);
print_r($browser);
?>

The above example will output something similar to:
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Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3

Array
(
[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
[css] => 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] =>
)
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13 Mar, 2008 - 05:27 AM
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^^^What he said
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13 Mar, 2008 - 05:35 AM
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As long as you have access to the php folder. Might be a problem for shared hosting.
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