How to get the OS on which PHP is running?
PHP has many predefined constants that are often useful.
Here, PHP_OS is the one you are looking for.
For instance, on my current machine, this code :
var_dump(PHP_OS);
Gives :
string 'Linux' (length=5)
You have some examples and comparisons with what the php_uname function can get you on the manual page of php_uname ; for instance (quoting) :
<?php
echo php_uname();
echo PHP_OS;
/* Some possible outputs:
Linux localhost 2.4.21-0.13mdk #1 Fri Mar 14 15:08:06 EST 2003 i686
Linux
FreeBSD localhost 3.2-RELEASE #15: Mon Dec 17 08:46:02 GMT 2001
FreeBSD
Windows NT XN1 5.1 build 2600
WINNT
*/
if (strtoupper(substr(PHP_OS, 0, 3)) === 'WIN') {
echo 'This is a server using Windows!';
} else {
echo 'This is a server not using Windows!';
}
That page also says :
For the name of just the operating
system, consider using thePHP_OS
constant, but keep in mind this
constant will contain the operating
system PHP was built on.
Get operating system info
The code below could explain in its own right, how http://thismachine.info/ is able to show which operating system someone is using.
What it does is that, it sniffs your core operating system model, for example windows nt 5.1 as my own.
It then passes windows nt 5.1/i to Windows XP as the operating system.
Using: '/windows nt 5.1/i' => 'Windows XP', from an array.
You could say guesswork, or an approximation yet nonetheless pretty much bang on.
Borrowed from an answer on SO https://stackoverflow.com/a/15497878/
<?php
$user_agent = $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'];
function getOS() {
global $user_agent;
$os_platform = "Unknown OS Platform";
$os_array = array(
'/windows nt 10/i' => 'Windows 10',
'/windows nt 6.3/i' => 'Windows 8.1',
'/windows nt 6.2/i' => 'Windows 8',
'/windows nt 6.1/i' => 'Windows 7',
'/windows nt 6.0/i' => 'Windows Vista',
'/windows nt 5.2/i' => 'Windows Server 2003/XP x64',
'/windows nt 5.1/i' => 'Windows XP',
'/windows xp/i' => 'Windows XP',
'/windows nt 5.0/i' => 'Windows 2000',
'/windows me/i' => 'Windows ME',
'/win98/i' => 'Windows 98',
'/win95/i' => 'Windows 95',
'/win16/i' => 'Windows 3.11',
'/macintosh|mac os x/i' => 'Mac OS X',
'/mac_powerpc/i' => 'Mac OS 9',
'/linux/i' => 'Linux',
'/ubuntu/i' => 'Ubuntu',
'/iphone/i' => 'iPhone',
'/ipod/i' => 'iPod',
'/ipad/i' => 'iPad',
'/android/i' => 'Android',
'/blackberry/i' => 'BlackBerry',
'/webos/i' => 'Mobile'
);
foreach ($os_array as $regex => $value)
if (preg_match($regex, $user_agent))
$os_platform = $value;
return $os_platform;
}
function getBrowser() {
global $user_agent;
$browser = "Unknown Browser";
$browser_array = array(
'/msie/i' => 'Internet Explorer',
'/firefox/i' => 'Firefox',
'/safari/i' => 'Safari',
'/chrome/i' => 'Chrome',
'/edge/i' => 'Edge',
'/opera/i' => 'Opera',
'/netscape/i' => 'Netscape',
'/maxthon/i' => 'Maxthon',
'/konqueror/i' => 'Konqueror',
'/mobile/i' => 'Handheld Browser'
);
foreach ($browser_array as $regex => $value)
if (preg_match($regex, $user_agent))
$browser = $value;
return $browser;
}
$user_os = getOS();
$user_browser = getBrowser();
$device_details = "<strong>Browser: </strong>".$user_browser."<br /><strong>Operating System: </strong>".$user_os."";
print_r($device_details);
echo("<br /><br /><br />".$_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']."");
?>
Footnotes:
(Jan. 19/14) There was a suggested edit on Jan. 18, 2014 to add /msie|trident/i by YJSoft a new member on SO.
The comment read as:
Comment: because msie11's ua doesn't include msie (it includes trident instead)
I researched this for a bit, and found a few links explaining the Trident string.
- http://www.sitepoint.com/ie11-smells-like-firefox/
- http://www.upsdell.ca/BrowserNews/res_sniff.htm
- How can I target only Internet Explorer 11 with JavaScript?
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trident_%28layout_engine%29
- https://stackoverflow.com/a/17907562/1415724
- http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ie/bg182625(v=vs.110).aspx
- An article on MSDN Blogs
- An article on NCZOnline
Although the edit was rejected (not by myself, but by some of the other editors), it's worth reading up on the links above, and to use your proper judgement.
As per a question asked about detecting SUSE, have found this piece of code at the following URL:
- http://codes-sources.commentcamarche.net/source/49533-operating-system-detection
Additional code:
/* return Operating System */
function operating_system_detection(){
if ( isset( $_SERVER ) ) {
$agent = $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'];
}
else {
global $HTTP_SERVER_VARS;
if ( isset( $HTTP_SERVER_VARS ) ) {
$agent = $HTTP_SERVER_VARS['HTTP_USER_AGENT'];
}
else {
global $HTTP_USER_AGENT;
$agent = $HTTP_USER_AGENT;
}
}
$ros[] = array('Windows XP', 'Windows XP');
$ros[] = array('Windows NT 5.1|Windows NT5.1)', 'Windows XP');
$ros[] = array('Windows 2000', 'Windows 2000');
$ros[] = array('Windows NT 5.0', 'Windows 2000');
$ros[] = array('Windows NT 4.0|WinNT4.0', 'Windows NT');
$ros[] = array('Windows NT 5.2', 'Windows Server 2003');
$ros[] = array('Windows NT 6.0', 'Windows Vista');
$ros[] = array('Windows NT 7.0', 'Windows 7');
$ros[] = array('Windows CE', 'Windows CE');
$ros[] = array('(media center pc).([0-9]{1,2}\.[0-9]{1,2})', 'Windows Media Center');
$ros[] = array('(win)([0-9]{1,2}\.[0-9x]{1,2})', 'Windows');
$ros[] = array('(win)([0-9]{2})', 'Windows');
$ros[] = array('(windows)([0-9x]{2})', 'Windows');
// Doesn't seem like these are necessary...not totally sure though..
//$ros[] = array('(winnt)([0-9]{1,2}\.[0-9]{1,2}){0,1}', 'Windows NT');
//$ros[] = array('(windows nt)(([0-9]{1,2}\.[0-9]{1,2}){0,1})', 'Windows NT'); // fix by bg
$ros[] = array('Windows ME', 'Windows ME');
$ros[] = array('Win 9x 4.90', 'Windows ME');
$ros[] = array('Windows 98|Win98', 'Windows 98');
$ros[] = array('Windows 95', 'Windows 95');
$ros[] = array('(windows)([0-9]{1,2}\.[0-9]{1,2})', 'Windows');
$ros[] = array('win32', 'Windows');
$ros[] = array('(java)([0-9]{1,2}\.[0-9]{1,2}\.[0-9]{1,2})', 'Java');
$ros[] = array('(Solaris)([0-9]{1,2}\.[0-9x]{1,2}){0,1}', 'Solaris');
$ros[] = array('dos x86', 'DOS');
$ros[] = array('unix', 'Unix');
$ros[] = array('Mac OS X', 'Mac OS X');
$ros[] = array('Mac_PowerPC', 'Macintosh PowerPC');
$ros[] = array('(mac|Macintosh)', 'Mac OS');
$ros[] = array('(sunos)([0-9]{1,2}\.[0-9]{1,2}){0,1}', 'SunOS');
$ros[] = array('(beos)([0-9]{1,2}\.[0-9]{1,2}){0,1}', 'BeOS');
$ros[] = array('(risc os)([0-9]{1,2}\.[0-9]{1,2})', 'RISC OS');
$ros[] = array('os/2', 'OS/2');
$ros[] = array('freebsd', 'FreeBSD');
$ros[] = array('openbsd', 'OpenBSD');
$ros[] = array('netbsd', 'NetBSD');
$ros[] = array('irix', 'IRIX');
$ros[] = array('plan9', 'Plan9');
$ros[] = array('osf', 'OSF');
$ros[] = array('aix', 'AIX');
$ros[] = array('GNU Hurd', 'GNU Hurd');
$ros[] = array('(fedora)', 'Linux - Fedora');
$ros[] = array('(kubuntu)', 'Linux - Kubuntu');
$ros[] = array('(ubuntu)', 'Linux - Ubuntu');
$ros[] = array('(debian)', 'Linux - Debian');
$ros[] = array('(CentOS)', 'Linux - CentOS');
$ros[] = array('(Mandriva).([0-9]{1,3}(\.[0-9]{1,3})?(\.[0-9]{1,3})?)', 'Linux - Mandriva');
$ros[] = array('(SUSE).([0-9]{1,3}(\.[0-9]{1,3})?(\.[0-9]{1,3})?)', 'Linux - SUSE');
$ros[] = array('(Dropline)', 'Linux - Slackware (Dropline GNOME)');
$ros[] = array('(ASPLinux)', 'Linux - ASPLinux');
$ros[] = array('(Red Hat)', 'Linux - Red Hat');
// Loads of Linux machines will be detected as unix.
// Actually, all of the linux machines I've checked have the 'X11' in the User Agent.
//$ros[] = array('X11', 'Unix');
$ros[] = array('(linux)', 'Linux');
$ros[] = array('(amigaos)([0-9]{1,2}\.[0-9]{1,2})', 'AmigaOS');
$ros[] = array('amiga-aweb', 'AmigaOS');
$ros[] = array('amiga', 'Amiga');
$ros[] = array('AvantGo', 'PalmOS');
//$ros[] = array('(Linux)([0-9]{1,2}\.[0-9]{1,2}\.[0-9]{1,3}(rel\.[0-9]{1,2}){0,1}-([0-9]{1,2}) i([0-9]{1})86){1}', 'Linux');
//$ros[] = array('(Linux)([0-9]{1,2}\.[0-9]{1,2}\.[0-9]{1,3}(rel\.[0-9]{1,2}){0,1} i([0-9]{1}86)){1}', 'Linux');
//$ros[] = array('(Linux)([0-9]{1,2}\.[0-9]{1,2}\.[0-9]{1,3}(rel\.[0-9]{1,2}){0,1})', 'Linux');
$ros[] = array('[0-9]{1,2}\.[0-9]{1,2}\.[0-9]{1,3}', 'Linux');
$ros[] = array('(webtv)/([0-9]{1,2}\.[0-9]{1,2})', 'WebTV');
$ros[] = array('Dreamcast', 'Dreamcast OS');
$ros[] = array('GetRight', 'Windows');
$ros[] = array('go!zilla', 'Windows');
$ros[] = array('gozilla', 'Windows');
$ros[] = array('gulliver', 'Windows');
$ros[] = array('ia archiver', 'Windows');
$ros[] = array('NetPositive', 'Windows');
$ros[] = array('mass downloader', 'Windows');
$ros[] = array('microsoft', 'Windows');
$ros[] = array('offline explorer', 'Windows');
$ros[] = array('teleport', 'Windows');
$ros[] = array('web downloader', 'Windows');
$ros[] = array('webcapture', 'Windows');
$ros[] = array('webcollage', 'Windows');
$ros[] = array('webcopier', 'Windows');
$ros[] = array('webstripper', 'Windows');
$ros[] = array('webzip', 'Windows');
$ros[] = array('wget', 'Windows');
$ros[] = array('Java', 'Unknown');
$ros[] = array('flashget', 'Windows');
// delete next line if the script show not the right OS
//$ros[] = array('(PHP)/([0-9]{1,2}.[0-9]{1,2})', 'PHP');
$ros[] = array('MS FrontPage', 'Windows');
$ros[] = array('(msproxy)/([0-9]{1,2}.[0-9]{1,2})', 'Windows');
$ros[] = array('(msie)([0-9]{1,2}.[0-9]{1,2})', 'Windows');
$ros[] = array('libwww-perl', 'Unix');
$ros[] = array('UP.Browser', 'Windows CE');
$ros[] = array('NetAnts', 'Windows');
$file = count ( $ros );
$os = '';
for ( $n=0 ; $n<$file ; $n++ ){
if ( preg_match('/'.$ros[$n][0].'/i' , $agent, $name)){
$os = @$ros[$n][1].' '.@$name[2];
break;
}
}
return trim ( $os );
}
Edit: April 12, 2015
I noticed a question yesterday that could be relevant to this Q&A and may be helpful for some. In regards to:
Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 4.4.2; SAMSUNG-GT-I9505 Build/KOT49H) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/41.0.2272.96 Mobile Safari/537.36
- Question: Store specific data in variable from another variable with regex with PHP
- Answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/29584014/
Another edit, and adding a reference link that was asked (and answered/accepted today, Nov. 4/16) which may be of use.
Consult the Q&A here on Stack:
- PHP Regex for OS detection
Does PHP have a function to detect the OS it's running on?
PHP has included the constant PHP_EOL for solving the problem you face, available since php 4.3.10 and PHP 5.0.2 - it contains a suitable end-of-line sequence for the server that PHP is running on.
If you want to use a different end-of-line sequence suitable for a particular client, then you'll have to code that yourself. One way to determine the client OS is to use get_browser, assuming your server has an up-to-date browscap.ini
PHP script - detect whether running under linux or Windows?
Check the value of the PHP_OS constantDocs.
It will give you various values on Windows like WIN32, WINNT or Windows.
See as well: Possible Values For: PHP_OS and php_unameDocs:
if (strtoupper(substr(PHP_OS, 0, 3)) === 'WIN') {
echo 'This is a server using Windows!';
} else {
echo 'This is a server not using Windows!';
}
PHP to check Operating System ONLY
Your $os_array doesn't have any data for Windows 10 (which I'm assuming can be mapped to Windows NT 10.0.
So, simply change $os_array to:
$os_array = array(
'/windows nt 10.0/i' => 'Windows 10',
'/windows nt 6.2/i' => 'Windows 8',
'/windows nt 6.1/i' => 'Windows 7',
'/windows nt 6.0/i' => 'Windows Vista',
'/windows nt 5.2/i' => 'Windows Server 2003/XP x64',
'/windows nt 5.1/i' => 'Windows XP',
'/windows xp/i' => 'Windows XP',
'/windows nt 5.0/i' => 'Windows 2000',
'/windows me/i' => 'Windows ME',
'/win98/i' => 'Windows 98',
'/win95/i' => 'Windows 95',
'/win16/i' => 'Windows 3.11',
'/macintosh|mac os x/i' => 'Mac OS X',
'/mac_powerpc/i' => 'Mac OS 9',
'/linux/i' => 'Linux',
'/ubuntu/i' => 'Ubuntu',
'/iphone/i' => 'iPhone',
'/ipod/i' => 'iPod',
'/ipad/i' => 'iPad',
'/android/i' => 'Android',
'/blackberry/i' => 'BlackBerry',
'/webos/i' => 'Mobile'
);
Alternative solution
This is pretty much the same code as yours - just providing an alternative but there's really no reason why this would work but the previous didn't.
<?php
function getOS($userAgent) {
$osPlatform = "Unknown OS Platform";
$os_array = array(
'windows nt 10.0' => 'Windows 10',
'windows nt 6.2' => 'Windows 8',
'windows nt 6.1' => 'Windows 7',
'windows nt 6.0' => 'Windows Vista',
'windows nt 5.2' => 'Windows Server 2003/XP x64',
'windows nt 5.1' => 'Windows XP',
'windows xp' => 'Windows XP',
'windows nt 5.0' => 'Windows 2000',
'windows me' => 'Windows ME',
'win98' => 'Windows 98',
'win95' => 'Windows 95',
'win16' => 'Windows 3.11',
'macintosh|mac os x' => 'Mac OS X',
'mac_powerpc' => 'Mac OS 9',
'linux' => 'Linux',
'ubuntu' => 'Ubuntu',
'phone' => 'iPhone',
'pod' => 'iPod',
'pad' => 'iPad',
'android' => 'Android',
'blackberry' => 'BlackBerry',
'webos' => 'Mobile'
);
foreach ($os_array as $label => $value) {
if (stripos($userAgent, $label)) {
return $value;
}
}
return $osPlatform;
}
function getBrowser($userAgent) {
$browser = "Unknown Browser";
$browser_array = array(
'msie' => 'Internet Explorer',
'firefox' => 'Firefox',
'safari' => 'Safari',
'chrome' => 'Chrome',
'opera' => 'Opera',
'netscape' => 'Netscape',
'maxthon' => 'Maxthon',
'konqueror' => 'Konqueror',
'mobile' => 'Handheld Browser'
);
foreach ($browser_array as $label => $value) {
if (stripos($userAgent, $label)) {
return $value;
}
}
return $browser;
}
$userAgent = $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'];
//$userAgent = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/45.0.2454.85 Safari/537.36';
$user_os = getOS($userAgent);
$user_browser = getBrowser($userAgent);
$device_details = "<strong>Browser: </strong>".$user_browser."<br /> <strong>Operating System: </strong>".$user_os."";
print_r($device_details);
//echo("<br /><br /><br />".$_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']."");
Accurately determine the type of OS PHP is running on
It's important to know that no non-Windows OS string is going to contain the text "win", and no non-OSX OS string is going to contain the word "darwin", and so on. Detecting the OS is easy.
$uname = strtolower(php_uname());
if (strpos($uname, "darwin") !== false) {
// It's OSX
} else if (strpos($uname, "win") !== false) {
// It's windows
} else if (strpos($uname, "linux") !== false) {
// It's Linux
} else {
// It's something your script won't run on
}
Is it possible to detect what operating system a user is coming from using PHP? (mac or windows)
Try the get_browser() function that's built into PHP.
$browser = get_browser(null, true);
echo "Platform: " . $browser["platform"] . "\n";
php-cli: What is the best way to detect the hosting OS?
There is a pre-defined constant PHP_OS which will help, but only displays the OS that PHP was built on, not the OS it is running on.
php_uname is what you want to discover information about the current server running your code:
php_uname() returns a description of the operating system PHP is running on.
Specifically,
php_uname('s'); // Operating system name. eg. FreeBSD.
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