[thelist] PHP brainleak

[jon steele]

Your code looks ok to me. Is OSDetect.php using a variable named $browse?

"global $browse" is not needed either.

Again, I don't see any problem with your code...$browse should be accessible by your main script
as used in browserdetect.php

Jon


--- Christopher Joseph <Christopher at ideadesigners.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am trying to include() a browser detection script but I cannot seem to
> access the browser result variable from my main script. I was sure I had the
> variable scope thing pegged down but I guess not.....
>
> heres the code:
>
> from index.php[
>
> $browse = "new";
> if ($detection <> "detected"){
> 	global $browse;
> 	include ("browserdetect.php");
> 	include ("OSdetect.php");
> 	setcookie("detection", "detected");
> 	}
> ]
>
> from browserdetect.php[
>
> $browse = getenv("HTTP_USER_AGENT");
> 	if (preg_match("/MSIE/i", "$browse")){
> 		$query = "UPDATE counter SET count = count + 1 WHERE name='MSIE'";
> 		$database->openConnectionNoReturn($query);
> 		}
> 	elseif (preg_match("/Mozilla/i", "$browse")){
> 		$query = "UPDATE counter SET count = count + 1 WHERE name='Netscape'";
> 		$database->openConnectionNoReturn($query);
> 		}
> 	else {
> 		$query = "UPDATE counter SET count = count + 1 WHERE name='Unknown'";
> 		$database->openConnectionNoReturn($query);
> 		}
> ]
>
> Any thoughts why when I echo $browse it shows as "new" still. Have a very
> reall feeling I am being dumb!
>
> Chris.
>
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