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Detect IE5 or IE6

function getMSIE6() {
       $userAgent = strtolower($_SERVER["HTTP_USER_AGENT"]);
       if (ereg("msie 6", $userAgent) || ereg("msie 5", $userAgent)) {
               return true;
       }
       return false;
}

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  1. Peter Dubrovski

    Use preg_mach not ereg (depraced in PHP 5.3.0):

    function getMSIE6() {
    $userAgent = strtolower($_SERVER["HTTP_USER_AGENT"]);
    if (preg_match(“/msie 6/”, $userAgent) || preg_match(“/msie 5/”, $userAgent)) {
    return true;
    }
    return false;
    }

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  2. Adam Haskell

    How’s about simply

    function getMSIE56() {
    return preg_match(“/msie [56]{1}/i”, $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']);
    }

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  3. Emmanuel

    Using strpos(“msie 6″, $userAgent) would be even better than eregi and preg_match

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  4. Sarfraz Ahmed

    @Emmanuel: Using strpos with strict type comparison operator === or !== is the way to go due to strange behavior of it.

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