propa/laravel-browscap

Browscap-PHP integration for Laravel 5

laravel-browscap

Browscap-PHP for Laravel 5/Lumen 5, _(*1)

Installation

Run composer require propa/laravel-browscap, _(*2)

If you're using Laravel 5.5 or 6 and didn't disabled package auto discovery referencing, _(*3)

Laravel

Reference service provider and corresponding alias in your app.php config, _(*4)

'providers' => [
    // ...
    Propa\BrowscapPHP\BrowscapServiceProvider::class,
],

'aliases' => [
    // ...
    'Browscap' => Propa\BrowscapPHP\Facades\Browscap::class,
],

Publish package config if necessary, _(*5)

php artisan vendor:publish

Lumen

For Lumen, register a different Provider in bootstrap/app.php:, _(*6)

 $app->register(\Propa\BrowscapPHP\BrowscapServiceProvider::class);

and also a facade, _(*7)

 class_alias(\Propa\BrowscapPHP\Facades\Browscap::class, Browscap::class);

Usage

Console commands defined by BrowscapPHP can be accessed via artisan, for the full list see, _(*8)

php artisan list browscap

Firstly, it is necessary to import browscap.ini and cache it, for that run, _(*9)

php artisan browscap:update

When necessary cache files are created by the above command, one can call Browscap::getBrowser() and analyze detected browser type and features. The extent of feature detection depends on browscap.ini file imported (there are lite, default and full versions available)., _(*10)

For more information, look into docs for underlying BrowscapPHP., _(*11)