Parse Out Bot's By User Agent

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  1. codytaylor

    codytaylor New Member

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    Useful function for logging stats and visitors in php.
    PHP:
    //returns 1 if the user agent is a bot
    function is_bot($user_agent)
    {
      
    //if no user agent is supplied then assume it's a bot
      
    if($user_agent == "")
        return 
    1;

      
    //array of bot strings to check for
      
    $bot_strings = Array(  "google",     "bot",
                
    "yahoo",     "spider",
                
    "archiver",   "curl",
                
    "python",     "nambu",
                
    "twitt",     "perl",
                
    "sphere",     "PEAR",
                
    "java",     "wordpress",
                
    "radian",     "crawl",
                
    "yandex",     "eventbox",
                
    "monitor",   "mechanize",
                
    "facebookexternal"
              
    );
      foreach(
    $bot_strings as $bot)
      {
        if(
    strpos($user_agent,$bot) !== false)
        { return 
    1; }
      }
      
      return 
    0;
    }

     
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  2. shabbir

    shabbir Administrator Staff Member

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    Nice little utility
     
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    LenoxFinlay Banned

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    I insert at the very end of the page after I flush everything out so there will be no delay of content even if the db is bogged down. And if I was give it to someone else who is using iis I would have to recode the entire thing. Also when doing reporting on large sets of data I don’t want to have to parse huge log files for every report.
     

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