How to detect the client computer is using PC Browser / Mobile Browser?

[George]

Thanks

[NC]

On May 13, 8:01 pm, "George" <@wrote:

>
How to detect the client computer is using PC Browser / Mobile
Browser?

By analyzing the content of $_SERVER["HTTP_USER_AGENT"], which,
needless to say, can be missing or configured to say anything...

Cheers,
NC

[Gordon]

On May 14, 4:01 am, "George" <@wrote:

Thanks

You could try looking at the user agent string and analysing that to
try and guess the browser, but in all honesty there's no 100% reliable
way to determine what browser the user is using. The user agent
string is sent by the browser but there's nothing preventing the
browser sending one that identifies it as a different browser from
what it actually is.

Why do you need to know what browser the user is using though? The
browser the user has should be irrelevant to what content they get
served. If you're attempting to get around browser rendering issues
(ie IE6 and its brain damaged CSS), then conditional comments in the
HTML is a better approach. Only IE recognises them, other browsers
ignore them, so you can use them to load IE specific stylesheets and
javascript to work around that browser's flaws.

Don't try using user agent analysis to lock certain browsers out of
your site! You're annoying users and driving them away, and those
determined enough and knowledgeable enough to spoof the user agent
string can get around any blocks you might put up any way.

[PHP-Arabia]

On May 14, 6:01 am, "George" <@wrote:

Thanks

Hi,

You can see
http://techpatterns.com/downloads/ph..._detection.php

and

http://www.hostpc.com/community/showthread.php?t=1599

also

Think about this code and enjoy :)

<?php
//If principal is using a Palm, then set it for presentation changes,
etc.

$string = $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'];
$substring = 'Palm';
$pos = 0;
$pos = strpos($string, $substring, $pos);
if ($pos =='')
{
$isPalm="0";
}
else {
$isPalm="1";
}
?>

[Captain Paralytic]

On 14 May, 09:16, Gordon <[e-mail]:

Why do you need to know what browser the user is using though? The
browser the user has should be irrelevant to what content they get
served.

I think that the answer to this question is in the OP's original
question.

As with the mobile Google search page and lots of other pages, web
site designers recognise that viewing a page on a tiny mobile device's
screen is a very different experience to viewing it on a "standard"
computer monitor, quite apart from the connection speed differences
that are still commonly encountered between the 2 platforms.

I for one am very pleased that designers take this into account.

Do you build all your sites to look great on a 2.8inch screen and then
have vast areas of nothing on a PC monitor?

[Guillaume]

PHP-Arabia a écrit :

Think about this code and enjoy :)

<?php
//If principal is using a Palm, then set it for presentation changes,
etc.

$string = $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'];
$substring = 'Palm';
$pos = 0;
$pos = strpos($string, $substring, $pos);
if ($pos =='')
{
$isPalm="0";
}
else {
$isPalm="1";
}
?>

<?php
$isPalm = (strpos($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'], 'Palm') !== false);
?>

$isPalm is false/true.
--
Guillaume

[Gordon]

On May 14, 12:47 pm, Captain Paralytic <[e-mail]:

On 14 May, 09:16, Gordon <[e-mail]:Why do you need to know what browser the user is using though? The

browser the user has should be irrelevant to what content they get
served.

I think that the answer to this question is in the OP's original
question.

As with the mobile Google search page and lots of other pages, web
site designers recognise that viewing a page on a tiny mobile device's
screen is a very different experience to viewing it on a "standard"
computer monitor, quite apart from the connection speed differences
that are still commonly encountered between the 2 platforms.

I for one am very pleased that designers take this into account.

Do you build all your sites to look great on a 2.8inch screen and then
have vast areas of nothing on a PC monitor?

Could that not be accomplished with a stylesheet for mobile users
though? On reflection I can see that sending a mobile browser less
content is obviously a good thing given that they tend to have limited
bandwidth, but with clever site design the stylesheet should be able
to accomplish that.

I didn't fully appreciate the OP's question as he'd posted it into the
title and left his body more or less blank.

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George escribió:

Thanks

You're welcome.

Oh, come on, don't write the whole question in the subject xD

Have a look at get_browser():

http://php.net/function.get_browser
http://browsers.garykeith.com/downloads.asp

You'll probably need to download the browser database
(lite_php_browscap.ini should be okay) but it's far more accurate that
any home made browser sniffing of your own. Just fetch the
"isMobileDevice" property and let others do the research.

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[Captain Paralytic]

On 14 May, 15:37, Gordon <[e-mail]:

On May 14, 12:47 pm, Captain Paralytic <[e-mail]:

On 14 May, 09:16, Gordon <[e-mail]:Why do you need to know what browser the user is using though? The

browser the user has should be irrelevant to what content they get
served.

I think that the answer to this question is in the OP's original
question.

As with the mobile Google search page and lots of other pages, web
site designers recognise that viewing a page on a tiny mobile device's
screen is a very different experience to viewing it on a "standard"
computer monitor, quite apart from the connection speed differences
that are still commonly encountered between the 2 platforms.

I for one am very pleased that designers take this into account.

Do you build all your sites to look great on a 2.8inch screen and then
have vast areas of nothing on a PC monitor?

Could that not be accomplished with a stylesheet for mobile users
though? On reflection I can see that sending a mobile browser less
content is obviously a good thing given that they tend to have limited
bandwidth, but with clever site design the stylesheet should be able
to accomplish that.

I don't see how the stylesheet could limit the amount of content being
sent.