user agent not available on local server?

[morris_buttermaker]

Howdy, I have a simple if/else line of php detecting user agent, if it's Firefox on OSX, do this, else do that...

It works fine live but not on my local install of xampp.

I tried this too as a check and live it feeds me back the agent, local nothing.

echo "search for firefox: ==" . stristr($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'],"Firefox") . "==";

FYI, my file directory is not in the install location, could that have an affect on it?

Thanks

[JonB]

my file directory

what do you mean by that? Are you referring to the DocumentRoot?

have you examined the Apache access.log?

[morris_buttermaker]

Yes, my documentroot was C:\Xampp\htdocs
I switched to D:\Websites

The sites work and php is running, I can do a basic hello world and whatnot, it's just that useragent not showing up locally.

Not at home so I can't check any logs.

[JonB]

Well check those logs -

See if the visits from your machine to localhost are being logged.

IF the access log is correctly reporting the user-agent, then there's proabably a logic flaw somewhere.

It might be a good idea

If there's nothing in the access.log - that's another matter.

Good Luck

[morris_buttermaker]

Asked a guy at work here too and he said check to see if php shorthand is on, I thought I had it on, but maybe not.

[glitzi85]

Better than switching that stupid short_open_tags to on is using the correct format:

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<?php
Code
?>

glitzi