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Bug #19902 browscap.ini parsing error
Submitted: 2002-10-14 10:38 UTC Modified: 2002-10-28 10:03 UTC
From: juri at ria dot com Assigned:
Status: Closed Package: Scripting Engine problem
PHP Version: 4.2.3 OS: All Win
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
 [2002-10-14 10:38 UTC] juri at ria dot com
Hello Bug Report reader.

<?php
 function list_array ($array) {
     while (list ($key, $value) = each ($array)) {
     $str .= "<b>$key:</b> $value<br>\n";
     }
     return $str;
 }
 echo "$HTTP_USER_AGENT<hr>\n";
 $browser = get_browser();
 echo list_array ((array) $browser);
?>

The browser information will be output together with the following message appended:
PHP: Error parsing [drive]:\[path]\browscap.ini on line 8206 

browscap.ini at line position 8206 reads:
browser=AE/2.1(Linux)

Changing "AE/2.1(Linux)" to "AE/2.1 Linux" solves the parsing error.
The parsing procedure seems to "dislike" brackets [(,)].

This problem is quite old, but still persists with PHP 4.2.3.

Suggestion: Update browscap.ini for PHP distributions accordingly.

Kind regards
Juri

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 [2002-10-28 10:03 UTC] iliaa@php.net
This bug has been fixed in CVS.

In case this was a PHP problem, snapshots of the sources are packaged
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In case this was a documentation problem, the fix will show up soon at
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Thank you for the report, and for helping us make PHP better.

The broken browscap.ini is no longer being bundled with Windows distributions of PHP. The documentation now links to a web site where a working browscap.ini, which is frequently updated can be obtained.
 
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