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meerware/browser-information
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SilverStripe Module detecting browser information

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Browser Information for SilverStripe
====================================

[](#browser-information-for-silverstripe)

A small module for detecting the browser name, version, operating system and device type through the browser user agent and exposing methods for controllers.

Requirements
------------

[](#requirements)

- SilverStripe 3 or higher

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

The module automatically extends all Controllers to have two methods:

```
$controller->getBrowser();
$controller->Browser();
```

Both returning a Browser class which wraps the browser name, version, operating system and device type.

### Browser Name

[](#browser-name)

```
$browser->getName();
```

The browser name is crude but will return one of the following:

- ie
- firefox
- chrome
- safari
- netscape
- opera
- konqueror
- unknown

### Browser Version

[](#browser-version)

```
$browser->getVersion();
```

The browser version will return a string value in the format of "X.X", just the major and minor version numbers if present.

### Operating System

[](#operating-system)

```
$browser->getSystem();
```

The operating system will return one of the following values:

- linux
- macintosh
- windows
- ios
- android
- unknown

### Device

[](#device)

```
$browser->getDevice();
```

Device detects whether the browser is either a handheld or a screen device (mobile/tablet or desktop/laptop) and will return the following values:

- screen
- handheld

### Engine

[](#engine)

```
$browser->getEngine();
```

Detects the browser rendering engine and will return the following values:

- gecko
- webkit
- trident
- presto

### Templates

[](#templates)

When the module is included in your SilverStripe directory structure, the module, through extension, will expose a browser attribute for use in templates:

```

```

Will be evaluated to something like:

```

```

###  Health Score

29

—

LowBetter than 59% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity19

Limited adoption so far

Community11

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity55

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 94.1% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~0 days

Total

3

Last Release

4685d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/e2b10b253da41fc6b82831ed6afb85f7f20dc51878b24327e34b77de76a156cb?d=identicon)[meerware](/maintainers/meerware)

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Top Contributors

[![meerware](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/2617518?v=4)](https://github.com/meerware "meerware (16 commits)")[![sageworksstudio](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/598105?v=4)](https://github.com/sageworksstudio "sageworksstudio (1 commits)")

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Tags

browsersilverstripe

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