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How to detect "Google Chrome" as the user-agent using PHP?

- by Zubin

I'm interested to know whether the user-agent is "Chrome" at the server end using PHP. Is there a reliable regular expression for parsing out the user-agent string from the request header?

Git workflow idea to push an unfinished local branch to remote for backup purposes

Say I'm currently working on a new feature which I've branched off of the 'dev' branch and I've been working for several days and it's not yet ready to be merged with 'dev' and pushed. Although I have made several commits and have been pulling changes to dev and then merging dev into my feature branch to keep myself updated. Here's my question. Is it a good idea to push my feature branch to a new branch (with the same name as my local branch) onto origin (say GitHub) just for back-up purposes and later on when it's merged into 'dev' and/or 'master' delete it from origin.

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Implementing a Cakephp Model using an Array

- by Zubin

The CakePHP Cookbook states that a Model can use a file (csv for example) instead of an actual database table but I couldn't find any implementation for it. I was wondering if it is possible to use an Array of data as a model in CakePHP since I have a fairly static set of data which is important to me in a relationship with another table but it doesn't make a whole lot of sense to create a complete table for it. Is it possible to implement a CakePHP Model using an Array?

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