How to get required information instead of checking with is* methods?

[Tanmay Khedekar]

How to directly get browser, it's version, mobile or tablet, it's OS & OS version. I know there are methods to like isAndroid(), isChrome() etc, but we will need to check each & every method to find correct browser, os, right?.

Is there something that will just return e.g. name of the browser. something like $browser = $detect->getBrowser() or $browser_version = $detect->getBrowserVersion(); ?

[pikulsky]

@tanmayk , for now I use the following way:

    public function getBrowser()
    {
        // note: $this->mobileDetect below is \Detection\MobileDetect      
        $browsers = array_keys($this->mobileDetect->getBrowsers());
        foreach ($browsers as $browser) {
            if ($this->mobileDetect->is($browser)) {
                return $browser;
            }
        }
        // unknown browser
        return self::UNKNOWN_BROWSER;
    }

the only thing I noticed: the library detects mobile browsers, for desktop browser (at least for my UA "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/112.0.0.0 Safari/537.36") the result for isChrome() = false. So, for browser name detection I have to use another library.

[pikulsky]

@tanmayk , same way call is() for values from $detect->getOperatingSystems() for get OS.

[Şerban Ghiţă]

@tanmayk I realized that this can be confusing but the library was never intended to be a User-Agent detector but rather a detector for "mobile" and "tablet" devices. I tried to tackle this problem accurately a few years ago, but it was a cumbersome task.

Mobile-Detect/src/MobileDetect.php

Lines 674 to 679 in d4279b3

     /** 
      * List of mobile User Agents. 
      * 
      * IMPORTANT: This is a list of only mobile browsers. 
      * Mobile Detect 2.x supports only mobile browsers, 
      * it was never designed to detect all browsers.