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<sect1 id="zend.http.user-agent-features-browscap">
<title>The Browscap UserAgent Features Adapter</title>
<sect2 id="zend.http.user-agent-features-browscap.intro">
<title>Overview</title>
<para>
<ulink url="http://browsers.garykeith.com/">Browscap</ulink> is an open project
dedicated to collecting an disseminating a "database" of browser capabilities --
actually a set of different files describing browser capablities. PHP has built-in
support for using these files via the <ulink
url="http://php.net/get_browser"><function>get_browser()</function></ulink>
function. This function requires that your <filename>php.ini</filename> provides a
<varname>browscap</varname> entry pointing to the PHP-specific
<filename>php_browscap.ini</filename> file, which <ulink
url="http://browsers.garykeith.com/stream.asp?PHP_BrowsCapINI">you can download from
the browscap site</ulink>.
</para>
<para>
This class provides a <link linkend="zend.http.user-agent-features">features
adapter</link> that calls <function>get_browser()</function> in order to discover
mobile device capabilities to inject into <classname>UserAgent</classname> device
instances.
</para>
<note id="zend.http.user-agent-features-browscap.intro.browscap-usage">
<title>You may need to restart your webserver</title>
<para>
The <varname>browscap</varname> <filename>php.ini</filename> setting is a
<constant>PHP_INI_SYSTEM</constant> setting, meaning it can only be set in your
<filename>php.ini</filename> file or in your web server configuration. As such, you
may need to restart your web server after adding the entry.
</para>
</note>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="zend.http.user-agent-features-browscap.quick-start">
<title>Quick Start</title>
<para>
First, if you haven't already, <ulink
url="http://browsers.garykeith.com/stream.asp?PHP_BrowsCapINI">download the
php_browscap.ini file</ulink>, and put it somewhere your web server can access it;
make sure the web server has permissions to read the file. Typically, you'll place this
in the same location as your <filename>php.ini</filename> file.
</para>
<para>
Next, update your <filename>php.ini</filename> file to add the following line:
</para>
<programlisting language="ini"><![CDATA[
browscap = /path/to/php_browscap.ini
]]></programlisting>
<note>
<title>Keep it simple</title>
<para>
If you put your <filename>php_browscap.ini</filename> file next to the
<filename>php.ini</filename> file, you can omit the path information, and simply
specify the filename.
</para>
</note>
<para>
Next, simply provide configuration to your application as follows:
</para>
<programlisting language="ini"><![CDATA[
resources.useragent.mobile.features.classname = "Zend_Http_UserAgent_Device_Features_Browscap"
]]></programlisting>
<para>
At this point, you're all set. You can access the browser information in a variety of
ways. From within the MVC portion of your application, you can access it via the
bootstrap. Within plugins, this is done by grabbing the bootstrap from the front
controller.
</para>
<programlisting language="php"><![CDATA[
$bootstrap = Zend_Controller_Front::getInstance()->getParam('bootstrap');
$userAgent = $bootstrap->getResource('useragent');
]]></programlisting>
<para>
From your action controller, use <methodname>getInvokeArg()</methodname> to grab the
bootstrap, and from there, the user agent object.
</para>
<programlisting language="php"><![CDATA[
$bootstrap = $this->getInvokeArg('bootstrap');
$userAgent = $bootstrap->getResource('useragent');
]]></programlisting>
<para>
Within your view, you can grab it using the <classname>UserAgent</classname> view
helper.
</para>
<programlisting language="php"><![CDATA[
$userAgent = $this->userAgent();
]]></programlisting>
<para>
Once you have the user agent object, you can query it for different capabilities. As one
example, you may want to use an alternate layout script based on the user agent
capabilities.
</para>
<programlisting language="php"><![CDATA[
$device = $userAgent->getDevice();
$cssSupport = $device->getFeature('cssversion');
$jsSupport = $device->getFeature('javascript');
switch (true) {
case ($jsSupport && $cssSupport >= 3):
$layout->setLayout('layout-html5');
break;
case ($jsSupport && $cssSupport < 3):
$layout->setLayout('layout-xhtml');
break;
case (!$jsSupport && $cssSupport < 3):
$layout->setLayout('layout-html-transitional');
break;
default:
$layout->setLayout('layout-web-1');
break;
}
]]></programlisting>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="zend.http.user-agent-features-browscap.options">
<title>Configuration Options</title>
<para>
The browscap adapter has no configuration options.
</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="zend.http.user-agent-features-browscap.methods">
<title>Available Methods</title>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry id="zend.http.user-agent-features-browscap.methods.get-from-request">
<term>
<methodsynopsis>
<methodname>getFromRequest</methodname>
<methodparam>
<funcparams>array $request, array $config</funcparams>
</methodparam>
</methodsynopsis>
</term>
<listitem>
<para>
Decompose the request in order to return an array of device capabilities.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</sect2>
</sect1>
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