Browser sniffer for bots

Hi again! :)

Does anyone know of a good browser sniffer (something like phpSniff) that
would know about bots / crawlers / search engine robots? PhpSniff is great,
but unfortunately it only returns empty string instead of browser family
when confronted with bots.

I am building my counter and would like to filter out search engine bots
from the results (and display them separately) - so I need to know which
bots are from Google, MSN, Yahoo,...

Thank you in advance!

Regards,

Anze

OK, got it: get_browser() - I can complement it with phpSniff to get all the
data I need. :)

Regards,

Anze

Hmmm... :(
Original question still stands.

It seems that get_browser() only works if the administrator has enabled the
browscap directive and pointed it to the right location of browscap.ini
file - not an option for me as I host the pages with different providers.

Any idea?

Regards,

Anze


> OK, got it: get_browser() - I can complement it with phpSniff to get all
> the data I need. :)

Anze schrieb:
> Hmmm... :(
> Original question still stands.
>
> It seems that get_browser() only works if the administrator has enabled the
> browscap directive and pointed it to the right location of browscap.ini
> file - not an option for me as I host the pages with different providers.
>
> Any idea?
>
> Regards,
>
> Anze
>
>
>
>>OK, got it: get_browser() - I can complement it with phpSniff to get all
>>the data I need. :)
>
>
>
Look for $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']

-rauch

> Look for $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']

Thank you, I know.
But I am looking for this info:
- browser family (Netscape, IE, Mozilla, Safari, Konqueror, GoogleBot, Yahoo
crawler,...)
- browser version
- is it a crawler or not (and preferably if it's a search engine crawler or
something else)

It has to be determined automatically from $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'], but
in such way that it will be easy to keep the browser list current.

I was thinking about using browscap.csv and implementing a PHP class that
would use it... Basically I would like to have get_browser function
functionality but without needing the admin rights on the server.

PhpSniff is really close, it would just need crawlers (I also don't know if
it's up-to-date).

Any idea would be appreciated...

Regards,

Anze