Comments on: Detecting Mobile Browsers

By: isMobile. php mobile detection goodness. | Richard Shepherd

isMobile. php mobile detection goodness. | Richard Shepherd — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 15:42:29 +0000

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By: Greg Bulmash

Greg Bulmash — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 16:51:44 +0000

Roo, for the past week or so I've been suggesting detectmobilebrowser.com instead of my code. As for making the script conditional, your snow script is JavaScript and this script is PHP. JavaScript is client side and PHP is server side. So you'd need to write some PHP code that literally changes the JavaScript. For example, you wrap the entire snow script up in a PHP conditional statement so it only gets included in the page if the mobile condition is not met. Or you can write a bit of PHP code to insert a "mobilebrowser" variable into your javascript, and then have your javascript react to whether it's set to true or false. Of course, many mobile browsers don't process JavaScript, so in their cases the point would be moot.

By: Roo

Roo — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 15:37:47 +0000

I'm hoping to make adding the snow script conditional as I think this would be easier than designing a whole new site just for mobiles at christmas. The snow script has a function to hide snow and I have tried to edit the snow script so that if a mobile browser is detected it would not show snow, but as I don't really know what I'm doing I couldn't get it to work. The snow script I tried to edit is here if you wanted to see it Is there a direction/website you could point me towards that may help me learn what is needed to add your script?

By: Greg Bulmash

Greg Bulmash — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 23:40:06 +0000

Well, you can either use it to redirect them to a version of your site that doesn't have the snow script, or you could make adding the snow script to your pages conditional on them being on a desktop browser when the page is generated.

By: Roo

Roo — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 23:37:28 +0000

Looks a nice script and could be exactually what I'm looking for.
I am far from the best web master in the world when it comes to writting scripts etc and hoped you could help.
With it being the holiday season I'm currently running a snow script on my website and forum.
Most mobile browsers including the iphone seem to have problems running the snow script.

Would there be a way I could implement your script so that mobile browsers would be able to ignore the snow script?
It may seem a trivial question to those in the know but it would really help my site users out and I just don't know how to do it.

By: Gayle

Gayle — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:45:39 +0000

The android phone by motorola won't declare false. Something in $uamatches overides $badmatches = array("OfficeLiveConnector","MSIE\ 8\.0","OptimizedIE8","MSN\ Optimized","Creative\ AutoUpdate","Swapper","andriod","iphone"); or if(preg_match("/Android/i",$_SERVER["HTTP_ACCEPT"])) return false; Also the lg voyager for verizon doesn't declare true. Go straight for my flash enabled site. Any Ideas?

By: jodamn

jodamn — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:01:42 +0000

Thanks a lot - this is very useful!

By: tiong

tiong — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 05:19:29 +0000

Nice piece of code and thanks for the tutorial.

By: Idel

Idel — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 19:49:13 +0000

Now the "Apache Mobile Filter" is one of the modules of "Apache Module Registry" portal (http://modules.apache.org/search.php?id=1787)

By: Detecting if users are riding a mobile browser or a standard browser - WuLongTi’s Words of Wit

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 21:12:34 +0000

[...] WuLongTi on Oct.01, 2009, under Hints and Tips, Web Work Greg Bulmash over at brainhandles.com came up with this awesome little php function. This simple snippet will detect whether your website [...]

By: s

Fri, 04 Sep 2009 16:20:40 +0000

You aren't detecting skyfire browser with this. I am using your newest version of the script, which has been a HUGE help to me.

Add this line to check for skyfire:
if(isset($_SERVER["HTTP_X_SKYFIRE_PHONE"])) return true;

Keep up the good work!

By: Dan T. Man

Dan T. Man — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 19:52:08 +0000

Nice script. Add WebOS to uamatches to catch the Palm Pre

By: Perl code to detect mobile browsers · All The News You Need

Perl code to detect mobile browsers · All The News You Need — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 15:42:15 +0000

[...] translated the PHP function from brainhandles.com to detect mobile devices to [...]
[Editor's note - he translated it into Perl]

By: Greg Bulmash

Greg Bulmash — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 19:14:04 +0000

Seems I accidentally added an extra comma when making a quick edit a couple of days ago. Fixed that. Should be fine now.

By: Jon Wallace

Jon Wallace — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 13:36:24 +0000

This looks like a fab script... i have tried to implement it but it seems not to work? Could someone advise what is the best way to use this code? I get parse errors when i try and use it??

Thanks