How to get browser name in cakephp 3 request? - php

Question

I need to get requesting browsers name in my web app.( for analytics )
In core php when I use $visitor_user_agent=$_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']it returns Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/43.0.2357.130 Safari/537.36 string when using with chrome.And then preg_match('/Chrome/i', $visitor_user_agent) can be used to know if its chrome or not.I am not sure if that was efficient way to find browser name or not.
I also found get_browser link but it is not giving browser name.
Is there a way in cakephp3 or core php to get browser name ?

Answer 1

This would return the user agent used for the request:
$this->request->header('User-Agent');
http://book.cakephp.org/3.0/en/controllers/request-response.html

Answer 2

Look into documentation of Request object.
You can get HTTP_USER_AGENT using env() method:
$this->request->env('HTTP_USER_AGENT');
You can also prepare custom detector:
$this->request->addDetector(
'chrome',
['env' => 'HTTP_USER_AGENT', 'pattern' => '/Chrome/i']
);
And then in controller just use is() method as follows:
if($this->request->is('chrome')) {
// do stuff for chrome
}