Device Detector VS Portable UTF-8

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

Device Detector

The Universal Device Detection library will parse any User Agent and detect the browser, operating system, device used (desktop, tablet, mobile, tv, cars, console, etc.), brand and model. (by matomo-org)

Portable UTF-8

🉑 Portable UTF-8 library - performance optimized (unicode) string functions for PHP. (by voku)
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Device Detector Portable UTF-8
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2,752 501
3.7% -
9.3 4.1
5 days ago 6 days ago
PHP PHP
GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 or later Apache License 2.0
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Device Detector

Posts with mentions or reviews of Device Detector. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-14.

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 Device Detector and Portable UTF-8 you can also consider the following projects:

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.

Opis String - Multibyte strings as objects

UA Parser

Stringy - A PHP string manipulation library with multibyte support

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

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

Google Translate For Free - Library for free use Google Translator. With attempts connecting on failure and array support.

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

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

ANSI to HTML5 - An ANSI to HTML5 converter