Agent VS Portable UTF-8

Compare Agent vs Portable UTF-8 and see what are their differences.

Agent

👮 A PHP desktop/mobile user agent parser with support for Laravel, based on Mobiledetect (by jenssegers)

Portable UTF-8

🉑 Portable UTF-8 library - performance optimized (unicode) string functions for PHP. (by voku)
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Agent Portable UTF-8
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4,440 501
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0.0 4.1
4 months ago 4 days ago
PHP PHP
MIT License Apache License 2.0
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Agent

Posts with mentions or reviews of Agent. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-06-30.
  • Send an SMS in Laravel Using Vonage
    2 projects | dev.to | 30 Jun 2022
    In this particular example, we are using the (jenssegers/agent) package to determine the user's browser. For the purpose of the article, we'll make the assumption that the Agent::browser call returns "Firefox". So, our user should now have received an SMS saying: "You have now registered for My Amazing App using Firefox!"
  • Internal system analytics recommendation with basic information only
    2 projects | /r/laravel | 8 Apr 2021
    Also, is there any recommendations to filter a bot request out? I've seen a few packages that does something like " $agent->isRobot();", (jenssegers/agent), but I don't know how good it is and if you have any recommendations I will be grateful.

Portable UTF-8

Posts with mentions or reviews of Portable UTF-8. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning Portable UTF-8 yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Agent and Portable UTF-8 you can also consider the following projects:

frigate - NVR with realtime local object detection for IP cameras

Opis String - Multibyte strings as objects

Mobile-Detect - Mobile_Detect is a lightweight PHP class for detecting mobile devices (including tablets). It uses the User-Agent string combined with specific HTTP headers to detect the mobile environment.

Stringy - A PHP string manipulation library with multibyte support

Regex - A sane interface for php's built in preg_* functions

Color Jizz - ColorJizz is a PHP library for manipulating and converting colors.

ANSI to HTML5 - An ANSI to HTML5 converter

Patchwork UTF-8 - Extensive, portable and performant handling of UTF-8 and grapheme clusters for PHP

Hoa String

SQL Formatter - A lightweight php class for formatting sql statements. Handles automatic indentation and syntax highlighting.