PHP检测Opera

Question

How can I detect Opera with PHP? Im using lightbox with drupal and their is a bug in opera, so if the site is being viewed with opera I want to print a normal link instead of the lightbox.

I found this link but it just says 'other browser' not opera: http://drupal.org/node/65903

This prints the browser being used and seems to work fine:

<?php echo $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']; ?> 

So can I modify the code to print something if the browser is opera? If so, are their any pit falls to this method?

Thanks

Answer 1

You could try using http://chrisschuld.com/projects/browser-php-detecting-a-users-browser-from-php/, it looks like an useful script, however, if that PHP code you entered is echoing something you can use to change how the link is rendered, then that might be fine. The only thing is that you should use a some loose string comparison, not a strict one, because Opera's user agents might change between versions or operating systems.