browscap.ini file

This guide is about "browscap.ini," a configuration file used by the PHP library "browscap," which contains information about web browsers and their characteristics, such as their name, version, compatible operating systems, browsing capabilities, and more.

File Information

The "browscap.ini" file reflects the latest information about web browsers. It can be used with PHP scripts that require the "browscap" library.

The phpinfo indicates the location of the browscap.ini file, which is:

/opt/php/lib/php/browscap.ini

You can retrieve the contents of the file yourself via a PHP script, for example:


header("Content-type: text/plain");
print file_get_contents("/opt/php/lib/php/browscap.ini");
?>




Note that the "browscap" library is no longer widely used, and many developers prefer other solutions for browser detection, such as the native PHP function "get_browser()."

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