Agent VS Regex

Compare Agent vs Regex and see what are their differences.

Agent

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

Regex

A sane interface for php's built in preg_* functions (by spatie)
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Agent Regex
2 1
4,440 1,104
- 0.0%
0.0 0.0
4 months ago over 1 year ago
PHP PHP
MIT License MIT License
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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.

Regex

Posts with mentions or reviews of Regex. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-04-05.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Agent and Regex you can also consider the following projects:

frigate - NVR with realtime local object detection for IP cameras

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

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.

Hoa String

Portable UTF-8 - 🉑 Portable UTF-8 library - performance optimized (unicode) string functions for PHP.

UUID - :snowflake: A PHP library for generating universally unique identifiers (UUIDs).

ANSI to HTML5 - An ANSI to HTML5 converter

Jieba-PHP - "結巴"中文分詞:做最好的 PHP 中文分詞、中文斷詞組件。 / "Jieba" (Chinese for "to stutter") Chinese text segmentation: built to be the best PHP Chinese word segmentation module.

Url highlight - PHP library to parse urls from string input

Opis String - Multibyte strings as objects

UA Parser