Re: best way to determine mobile device - Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP Discussion Boards

Hi,

What's the best way to determine the mobile device then redirect to the /mobile?

Regards,
Jassim

As a start, read these, they should help you ...

http://webdesignerwall.com/tutorials/css3-media-queries[^]

http://webdesignerwall.com/tutorials/responsive-design-with-css3-media-queries[^]

then, if necessary, do some Googling and further reading.

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You could have accepted Graham's answer in the Web Dev forum

modified 1-Aug-19 21:02pm.

Detecting if its a mobile device

Please follow the above link. It looks good

Detecting if its a mobile device
 
Please follow the above link. It looks good

but how can I implement it? Do i have to put it in every page? is it possible to put it in one place for the entire application?

You could do either one of the two.

But I would suggest creating a generic php file with this piece of code in a method. Including that php file in every page and calling that method.

EG:
dection.php <-- contains the check + redirect

Sample index.php:

<?php include_once('detection.php');?>
<!-- rest of document -->

sorry but need more help plz

that mentioned code will be placed in a separet file.. that's file.. but it will be between tage? right? then followed by the if($mobile === true)?

so is the following code correct?:

VB

<?php
    function detect_mobile()
    {
        $_SERVER['ALL_HTTP'] = isset($_SERVER['ALL_HTTP']) ? $_SERVER['ALL_HTTP'] : '';

        $mobile_browser = '0';

        $agent = strtolower($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']);

        if(preg_match('/(up.browser|up.link|mmp|symbian|smartphone|midp|wap|phone|iphone|ipad|ipod|android|xoom)/i', $agent))
            $mobile_browser++;

        if((isset($_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT'])) and (strpos(strtolower($_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT']),'application/vnd.wap.xhtml+xml') !== false))
            $mobile_browser++;

        if(isset($_SERVER['HTTP_X_WAP_PROFILE']))
            $mobile_browser++;

        if(isset($_SERVER['HTTP_PROFILE']))
            $mobile_browser++;

        $mobile_ua = substr($agent,0,4);
        $mobile_agents = array(
                            'w3c ','acs-','alav','alca','amoi','audi','avan','benq','bird','blac',
                            'blaz','brew','cell','cldc','cmd-','dang','doco','eric','hipt','inno',
                            'ipaq','java','jigs','kddi','keji','leno','lg-c','lg-d','lg-g','lge-',
                            'maui','maxo','midp','mits','mmef','mobi','mot-','moto','mwbp','nec-',
                            'newt','noki','oper','palm','pana','pant','phil','play','port','prox',
                            'qwap','sage','sams','sany','sch-','sec-','send','seri','sgh-','shar',
                            'sie-','siem','smal','smar','sony','sph-','symb','t-mo','teli','tim-',
                            'tosh','tsm-','upg1','upsi','vk-v','voda','wap-','wapa','wapi','wapp',
                            'wapr','webc','winw','xda','xda-'
                            );

        if(in_array($mobile_ua, $mobile_agents))
            $mobile_browser++;

        if(strpos(strtolower($_SERVER['ALL_HTTP']), 'operamini') !== false)
            $mobile_browser++;

        // Pre-final check to reset everything if the user is on Windows
        if(strpos($agent, 'windows') !== false)
            $mobile_browser=0;

        // But WP7 is also Windows, with a slightly different characteristic
        if(strpos($agent, 'windows phone') !== false)
            $mobile_browser++;

        if($mobile_browser>0)
            return true;
        else
            return false;
    }

    $mobile = detect_mobile();

    if($mobile === true)
        header('Location: blog');
?>

That would indeed work. If you put the entire function in the external php file and the code below in all files that need the check for mobile devices.

if (detect_mobile()) {
 header('Location: blog');
}

Please note though that the redirect that you put in you code would not work as is. You would need to replace the 'blog' part with a URL to the mobile site.

I am now getting this error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_VARIABLE in /home/jassimrahma/JassimRahma.com/detection.php on line 4

this is what I put in my index.php 1st line:

C#

<?php
    include_once('detection.php');
    if (detect_mobile()) {
    header('Location: http://m.jassimrahma.com');
    }
?>

and detection.php is here:

VB

<?php
    function detect_mobile()
    {
        $_SERVER['ALL_HTTP'] = isset($_SERVER['ALL_HTTP']) ? $_SERVER['ALL_HTTP'] : '';

        $mobile_browser = '0';

        $agent = strtolower($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']);

        if(preg_match('/(up.browser|up.link|mmp|symbian|smartphone|midp|wap|phone|iphone|ipad|ipod|android|xoom)/i', $agent))
            $mobile_browser++;

        if((isset($_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT'])) and (strpos(strtolower($_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT']),'application/vnd.wap.xhtml+xml') !== false))
            $mobile_browser++;

        if(isset($_SERVER['HTTP_X_WAP_PROFILE']))
            $mobile_browser++;

        if(isset($_SERVER['HTTP_PROFILE']))
            $mobile_browser++;

        $mobile_ua = substr($agent,0,4);
        $mobile_agents = array(
                            'w3c ','acs-','alav','alca','amoi','audi','avan','benq','bird','blac',
                            'blaz','brew','cell','cldc','cmd-','dang','doco','eric','hipt','inno',
                            'ipaq','java','jigs','kddi','keji','leno','lg-c','lg-d','lg-g','lge-',
                            'maui','maxo','midp','mits','mmef','mobi','mot-','moto','mwbp','nec-',
                            'newt','noki','oper','palm','pana','pant','phil','play','port','prox',
                            'qwap','sage','sams','sany','sch-','sec-','send','seri','sgh-','shar',
                            'sie-','siem','smal','smar','sony','sph-','symb','t-mo','teli','tim-',
                            'tosh','tsm-','upg1','upsi','vk-v','voda','wap-','wapa','wapi','wapp',
                            'wapr','webc','winw','xda','xda-'
                            );

        if(in_array($mobile_ua, $mobile_agents))
            $mobile_browser++;

        if(strpos(strtolower($_SERVER['ALL_HTTP']), 'operamini') !== false)
            $mobile_browser++;

        // Pre-final check to reset everything if the user is on Windows
        if(strpos($agent, 'windows') !== false)
            $mobile_browser=0;

        // But WP7 is also Windows, with a slightly different characteristic
        if(strpos($agent, 'windows phone') !== false)
            $mobile_browser++;

        if($mobile_browser>0)
            return true;
        else
            return false;
    }
?>

Thanks

I am using now this and very simple and works fine for me..

http://code.google.com/p/php-mobile-detect/[^]

Put it in the initial page. That is the first page user would open. such as index page or login page.

If it figured out that the client device is mobile save that information to session. As a matter of fact its not a big deal. you dont even need to remember whether it is a mobile device or not. But If the set of functions are different for mobile and pc then you can use the session variable to determine about which function to call.

more over when it would redirect to page allocated for mobile do not put any link to those mobile page that redirect to pc pages

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modified 1-Aug-19 21:02pm.

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modified 1-Aug-19 21:02pm.

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i am doing one webmail project using php..
for that i need to read mails from that particular email and show it in my inbox..

my question is how to read mails from Cpanel using PHP..

any help will be useful to me.. Sniff | :^)

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Do you know where the email actually resides? Is this a linux system or a Windows system? I know for Linux, there are several open source webmail projects, my favorite is Roundcube. If you have your mind set on actually writing it yourself, (again, assuming a Linux server), you would need to be able to parse the mbox files where postfix (I'm assuming you are using postfix) stores email at (/var/spool/mail). I've never done that, but I know you'll need to make sure your web browser (apache?) has permissions to read those files...

Does that help?

Hello frndz.
i am going to develop own web mail system for one of my client.
for that i need ideas to implement.....
any one can tell me the procedure or ideas about how to implement..? Frown | :(

I'll explain the procedure.

the mails want to store in database and when the user logging in the mails want to display like g-mail.
outbox folder to have unsent messages.
drafts folder to have saved messages
sent items folder to have sent messages.
archives folder to have archived items..

ADMIN:
admin can create email id.....the admin only can create email id like c panel.

thank in advance,,,,
any help will be useful to me.. Smile | :)

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