hwo to get browser window size?

[Baron Samedi]

I want to collect stats about people viewing my web site.

Actually, I already use Awstats, but it doesn't do what I want, so I
will code it myself.

I want to know what size browser window visitors to my site use
(preferably; failing that, what their monitor resolution is).

I want this info so that I can know what sort of resolution to display
my photographs at.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance.

[Ian Collins]

Baron Samedi wrote:

I want to collect stats about people viewing my web site.

Actually, I already use Awstats, but it doesn't do what I want, so I
will code it myself.

I want to know what size browser window visitors to my site use
(preferably; failing that, what their monitor resolution is).

I want this info so that I can know what sort of resolution to display
my photographs at.

Any ideas?

JavaScript. You can't do this server side.

--
Ian Collins.

[Iván Sánchez Ortega]

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Baron Samedi wrote:

I want to know what size browser window visitors to my site use
(preferably; failing that, what their monitor resolution is).

Give elinks a try, and you'll realize why this is not possible.

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[webramz]

You can do this by JavaScript not PHP (or both of them together for
some reason):

<script language="JavaScript>
var w = screen.width;
var h = screen.height;

alert('You are using ' + w + 'x' + h + ' resolution...!');

</script>

Behzad Nategh

[Scott]

On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 01:28 -0700, we*****@gmail.com wrote:

You can do this by JavaScript not PHP (or both of them together for
some reason):

<script language="JavaScript>
var w = screen.width;
var h = screen.height;

alert('You are using ' + w + 'x' + h + ' resolution...!');

</script>

Behzad Nategh

You could then send that info to PHP by adding:

document.location.href = 'http://www.currentpage.com?w='+w+'&h='+h;

Then use $_GET['w'] and $_GET['h'] for your resolution.

Of course, this method assumes the user has javascript enabled on their
browser.

[Baron Samedi]

Thanks, that is perfect.

I am not anal about collecting 100% of visitors stats, those with JS
active will be enough - for my purposes - since I only want to get an
idea of what size I should show my photos at.
Hmm, It means that I have to - partially - load each page twice,
though. But I guess that I can live with that for a month or two.

(partially, because I stick the JS at the very top, immediately after a
check for whether the H & W params are present. That way I don't load
the main body, graphics, menu, etc when getting the esolution)

[Erwin Moller]

we*****@gmail.com wrote:

You can do this by JavaScript not PHP (or both of them together for
some reason):

<script language="JavaScript>
A little addition:

<script type="text/javascript">
is better than
<script language="Javascript">

The ancient language-tag is depricated for some time and could be dropped by
browsers anytime. (better safe than sorry. :-)

var w = screen.width;
var h = screen.height;
In case you care about colordepth, screen also holds a colorDepth.
var colorDepth = screen.colorDepth;

8 means 256 colors.
So it contains the base-2 logarithm.

Regards,
Erwin Moller

alert('You are using ' + w + 'x' + h + ' resolution...!');

</script>

Behzad Nategh

[ryanf]

You can do this in JS then send the data with ajax so that it does not
require another page load if all you are doing is collecting stats
Baron Samedi wrote:

I want to collect stats about people viewing my web site.

Actually, I already use Awstats, but it doesn't do what I want, so I
will code it myself.

I want to know what size browser window visitors to my site use
(preferably; failing that, what their monitor resolution is).

I want this info so that I can know what sort of resolution to display
my photographs at.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance.

[Baron Samedi]

Look at http://awstats.sourceforge.net/docs/...tml#SCREENSIZE
you idiot. You use AwStats, which has an optional add-in to do this.

(just added this for the benefit of anyone else who might look at this
thread later)

[Wog George]

"Baron Samedi" <Pa************@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:11**********************@z34g2000cwc.googlegr oups.com...

Look at http://awstats.sourceforge.net/docs/...tml#SCREENSIZE
you idiot. You use AwStats, which has an optional add-in to do this.

(just added this for the benefit of anyone else who might look at this
thread later)

Does that mean "you idiot" is directed at anyone else who might look at this
thread later??

--
George
"If I was a towel, why would I be wearing this hat and this fake
moustache" - Steven McTowelie - 19 April 2006

[julian_m]

we*****@gmail.com wrote:

You can do this by JavaScript not PHP (or both of them together for
some reason):

<script language="JavaScript>
var w = screen.width;
var h = screen.height;

alert('You are using ' + w + 'x' + h + ' resolution...!');

</script>

And then, you can put links to different Css files, each of them
related with a particular resolution
<a href="yoursite.php?res=1024> your resolution</a><a href
="yoursite.php?res=800 --- and so on

I'm asuming that the visual layout of your site is made through css.
I've done it once, and worked like a charm. I don't understand why some
people thik that this shouldn't be done at all ¿?

regards - jm