Hey everyone, I saw that no one has posted here yet, so i though this might be a good place to start :)
I have created a php based detection script for mobile sites. Most of the mobile sites I create are usually housed in a /mobile/ folder within the main site (long story... don't ask ;)). So if both sites are with in the same domain I thought i would be easy to detect whether the person visiting the site was either a computer or a mobile device. So here what I came up with:
Basically I do a preg_match search in the $_SERVER variable (remembering that this is php, asp and jsp are different).
preg_match(My pattern, $_SERVER array) -> so it likes this preg_match("/http_(x|ua)_.*?/Ai",$_SERVER)
The regular expression searches the array keys for anything that matchs HTTP_X_ or HTTP_UA_
Only mobile browsers will set a HTTP_X variables and only Windows Mobile devices will set the HTTP_UA variables.
So far this as proved to work for ever device I have tested, including Opera Mini which is gain great momentum in the mobile industry. Please let me know what you think, or if you have any questions... ask away!!
Cheers!
