How should I be setting browscap.ini file

Question

I downloaded the browscap.ini file and then pasted it to the directory "C:\wamp\bin\php\php5.4.3\extras" and i went to php.ini file and made these changes there:

[browscap]
; http://php.net/browscap
browscap = extras/browscap.ini

and then i restarted the server, and typed the following code into temp.php file:

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

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

now the output is like:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/537.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/22.0.1229.79 Safari/537.4

Warning: get_browser(): browscap ini directive not set in C:\wamp\www\functions\browser.php on line 4

am i missing something? please provide some solution, and sorry if i am unable to make you understand

Restarting the browser might be insufficient. PHP runs in the local webserver. Restart that one. — mario, Sep 30 '12 at 17:24
sorry, i meant i restarted server, i mistakenly typed browser, it should be server. — Nicholas Wild, Sep 30 '12 at 17:33
@mario, i dont know about time zone, i wanted to use get_browser which is not working. — Nicholas Wild, Sep 30 '12 at 17:34
@Baba: True. Not this one. Seems more like editing discrepancy now. (Would have otherwise closevoted as too localized.) — mario, Sep 30 '12 at 19:03
Could this setting be changed during script execution, with `ini_set`? — Tomasz Gandor, Nov 18 '19 at 12:58

score 33 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 30 '12 at 17:41

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You are to use the Full PATH and restart your server when you are done

Example

[browscap]
; http://php.net/browscap
browscap = "C:\xampp\php\extras\browscap.ini"

answered Sep 30 '12 at 17:41

Baba

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thanks. it worked, but default was extra\browscap.ini so there may be any alternative?? – Nicholas Wild Sep 30 '12 at 18:02
Yes, you can find several browscap alternatives at https://browscap.org/ – Leo Galleguillos May 26 '20 at 18:43

score 15 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 30 '15 at 07:09

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on linux server

wget http://browscap.org/stream?q=Lite_PHP_BrowsCapINI -O /etc/php.d/browscap.ini

[browscap]
; http://php.net/browscap
browscap = "/etc/php.d/browscap.ini"

answered Jun 30 '15 at 07:09

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Bruno Ribeiro · Answer 3 · 2020-04-24T13:50:48.643

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use this code for install, tested on mint and debian

wget http://browscap.org/stream?q=Lite_PHP_BrowsCapINI -O /etc/php7/apache2/browscap.ini
sudo echo -e "[browscap]\n  browscap = '/etc/php7/apache2/browscap.ini'" >> php.ini
sudo service apache2 reload

replace php7 for you PHP version

edited Apr 24 '20 at 13:50

answered Jul 05 '16 at 20:33

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Fengshun Cheng · Answer 4 · 2016-08-31T15:16:01.623

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This is work for me on MacBook.

[browscap]
; http://php.net/browscap
browscap = "/usr/local/etc/browscap.ini"

edited Aug 31 '16 at 15:16

answered Aug 19 '16 at 17:14

Fengshun Cheng

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score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Sep 05 '21 at 17:01

Note: browsecap file is not default configuration, and disabled by default. If you setting it, make sure you call get_browser() safely in your scripts to avoid warnings on other installations by checking if it is available to be called:

if (!ini_get('browscap')) {

    // Not set, use other custom func to detect browser:
    $browser = get_browser_manually();
} else {

    // Browsecap.ini was set, use it:
    $browser = get_browser(null, true);
}

See my complete answer related to broswer detection here.

How should I be setting browscap.ini file

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