Simple Browser Redirect

[illestone]

I would like to be able to redirect any browser other than Firefox or IE to an alternate page. Could anyone help?

[Psycho]

You can check the value of $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'] and do a redirect based upon that value. However, that value can be spoofed by users if they really want to. So, it is not fool-proof. You would also have to determine how you will "decide" if the browser is IE or FF.

 

Here are the contents of that variable using versions of IE7 and FF3 on my PC:

 

- Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0; GTB6.6; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; InfoPath.2; .NET CLR 3.5.21022; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30618; OfficeLiveConnector.1.5; OfficeLivePatch.1.3; MS-RTC EA 2; MS-RTC LM 

- Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20091221 Firefox/3.5.7 GTB7.1 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

 

I'm sure there are some best practices, but I would guess you could check if the value contains "MSIE" or "Firefox"

[illestone]

It dosen't have to be full proof, but more of a way to get traffic to where it should be for best viewing purposes.

 

I am only a novice when it comes to PHP so anything helps.

[lastkarrde]

You could do it in PHP or Javascript.

 

In PHP (as mjdamato said) there is the $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'] . You could use substr to match the names of browsers (MSIE, Firefox). Then redirect using header().

 

In Javascript you could use Quirksmode's browser detection and change window.location accordingly.

[Rifts]

why dont you just use different style sheets depending on which browser they have?

[Zurev]

Have a look at CSS conditionals, very useful.

 

http://www.conditional-css.com/advanced