Comments on: PHP Auto-Bowser Detection

By: AppStoreDeals

AppStoreDeals — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 20:44:08 +0000

Thanks so much for this! On App Store Deals I modified the code a bit to detect iPod and iPhone such as:

Seems to work well! Thanks for the base. Justin @ http://appstoredeals.com

By: Josh N.

Josh N. — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 20:49:50 +0000

“Auto-bowser Dectection” ??!!

Where was this when I played Super Mario Bros?

By: david

david — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 04:55:52 +0000

wouldnt it be more practical to use a service like handsetdetection.com so that you can adjust for every handset rather than just the iphone?

(i get that this is an iphone specific site but……)

By: admin

admin — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 22:36:09 +0000

Hi Bufo,

The script was tested and works with iPod Touch, but it is counterintuitive as the user agent strings are in fact slightly different.

If you’d like, you can always add specific support for iPod touch by doing another check for “iPod”.

$touchDetect = strpos($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'],”iPod”);

Then extend your if statement to check this as well.

Hope that helps!

-Admin

By: Bufo

Bufo — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 18:15:26 +0000

Are you sure that the code above detects the iPod Touch as well as the iPhone? Somehow, I don’t believe that the User Agent for the iPod Touch is “iPhone”.

By: admin

admin — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 22:42:03 +0000

Hi Mickie,

You can use PHP’s header() function in place of the echo, like so:

$browser = strpos($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'],”iPhone”);
if ($browser == true) { header(”Location: http://www.example.com/“); }
?>

Note that no output can be sent before the function is called, as you will get an error.

Hope that helps!

By: Mickie

Mickie — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 11:22:33 +0000

I have a little question: when want to redirect, is this code correct?
if ($browser == true) { echo ‘redirectpage.php’; }