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Detecting Safari 5.0 with browscap.ini

There are many ways to identify browsers on the server side. Gary Keith offers a quite complete mapping of user agent strings to browser/os versions enhanced with information about their capabilities. I guess it’s impressive how fast Gary was for all these years in adding new browsers to his browscap.ini and how reliable in keeping it up-to-date. Unfortunately, according to his website, he is currently facing health issues and cannot maintain the project for a while. So if you are using php_browscap.ini but missing Safari 5 or Chrome 6 support you can apply the patch listed below. Until then: Get well soon, Gary!

UPDATE:
Gary has uploaded a newer version of browscap.ini which now includes Safari 5 and Chrome 6. You don’t need to apply the patch below anymore.

--- browscap.ini_old    2010-06-22 21:50:30.000000000 +0200
+++ browscap.ini_new    2010-06-22 22:31:55.000000000 +0200
@@ -5504,6 +5504,57 @@
 Win32=false
 Win64=true

+;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; Chrome 6.0
+
+[Chrome 6.0]
+Parent=DefaultProperties
+Browser="Chrome"
+Version=6.0
+MajorVer=6
+Win32=true
+Frames=true
+IFrames=true
+Tables=true
+Cookies=true
+JavaApplets=true
+JavaScript=true
+CssVersion=3
+supportsCSS=true
+
+[Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X*; *) AppleWebKit/* (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/6.* Safari/*]
+Parent=Chrome 6.0
+Platform=MacOSX
+
+[Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; *) AppleWebKit/* (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/6.* Safari/*]
+Parent=Chrome 6.0
+Platform=WinXP
+
+[Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; *) AppleWebKit/* (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/6.* Safari/*]
+Parent=Chrome 6.0
+Platform=Win2003
+
+[Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; *) AppleWebKit/* (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/6.* Safari/*]
+Parent=Chrome 6.0
+Platform=WinVista
+
+[Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; *) AppleWebKit/* (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/6.* Safari/*]
+Parent=Chrome 6.0
+Platform=Win7
+
+[Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 7.0; *) AppleWebKit/* (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/6.* Safari/*]
+Parent=Chrome 6.0
+Platform=Win7
+
+[Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686*; *) AppleWebKit/* (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/6.* Safari/*]
+Parent=Chrome 6.0
+Platform=Linux
+
+[Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; *) AppleWebKit/* (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/6.* Safari/*]
+Parent=Chrome 6.0
+Win32=false
+Win64=true
+
+
 ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; Google Code

 [Google Code]
@@ -9604,6 +9655,47 @@
 Parent=Safari 4.0
 Platform=Win7

+;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; Safari 5.0
+
+[Safari 5.0]
+Parent=DefaultProperties
+Browser="Safari"
+Version=5.0
+MajorVer=5
+Frames=true
+IFrames=true
+Tables=true
+Cookies=true
+BackgroundSounds=true
+JavaApplets=true
+JavaScript=true
+CssVersion=3
+supportsCSS=true
+
+[Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; ?; *Mac OS X*; *) AppleWebKit/* (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0* Safari/*]
+Parent=Safari 5.0
+Platform=MacOSX
+
+[Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; ?; Windows NT 5.1; *) AppleWebKit/* (*) Version/5.0* Safari/*]
+Parent=Safari 5.0
+Platform=WinXP
+
+[Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; ?; Windows NT 5.2; *) AppleWebKit/* (*) Version/5.0* Safari/*]
+Parent=Safari 5.0
+Platform=Win2003
+
+[Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; ?; Windows NT 6.0; *) AppleWebKit/* (*) Version/5.0* Safari/*]
+Parent=Safari 5.0
+Platform=WinVista
+
+[Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; ?; Windows NT 6.1; *) AppleWebKit/* (*) Version/5.0* Safari/*]
+Parent=Safari 5.0
+Platform=Win7
+
+[Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; ?; Windows NT 7.0; *) AppleWebKit/* (*) Version/5.0* Safari/*]
+Parent=Safari 5.0
+Platform=Win7
+
 ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; Lunascape 5.0

 [Lunascape 5.0]