PHP - Check if the page run on Mobile or Desktop browser

Question

In my PHP page I should display two different text contents according to whether the page run under mobile or desktop browser. Is there a way to perform this control in PHP?

Solution 1

There is a very nice PHP library for detecting mobile clients here: http://mobiledetect.net

Using that it's quite easy to only display content for a mobile:

include 'Mobile_Detect.php';
$detect = new Mobile_Detect();

// Check for any mobile device.
if ($detect->isMobile()){
   // mobile content
}
else {
   // other content for desktops
}

Solution 2

I used Robert Lee`s answer and it works great! Just writing down the complete function i'm using:

function isMobileDevice(){
    $aMobileUA = array(
        '/iphone/i' => 'iPhone', 
        '/ipod/i' => 'iPod', 
        '/ipad/i' => 'iPad', 
        '/android/i' => 'Android', 
        '/blackberry/i' => 'BlackBerry', 
        '/webos/i' => 'Mobile'
    );

    //Return true if Mobile User Agent is detected
    foreach($aMobileUA as $sMobileKey => $sMobileOS){
        if(preg_match($sMobileKey, $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'])){
            return true;
        }
    }
    //Otherwise return false..  
    return false;
}

Solution 3

You can do it manually if you want.

Reference: http://php.net/manual/en/function.get-browser.php

preg_match('/windows|win32/i', $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'])

preg_match('/iPhone|iPod|iPad/', $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'])

You can even make it a script

$device = 'Blackberry'

preg_match("/$device/", $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'])

Here is somewhat of a small list

                        '/windows nt 6.2/i'     =>  'Windows 8',
                        '/windows nt 6.1/i'     =>  'Windows 7',
                        '/windows nt 6.0/i'     =>  'Windows Vista',
                        '/windows nt 5.2/i'     =>  'Windows Server 2003/XP x64',
                        '/windows nt 5.1/i'     =>  'Windows XP',
                        '/windows xp/i'         =>  'Windows XP',
                        '/windows nt 5.0/i'     =>  'Windows 2000',
                        '/windows me/i'         =>  'Windows ME',
                        '/win98/i'              =>  'Windows 98',
                        '/win95/i'              =>  'Windows 95',
                        '/win16/i'              =>  'Windows 3.11',
                        '/macintosh|mac os x/i' =>  'Mac OS X',
                        '/mac_powerpc/i'        =>  'Mac OS 9',
                        '/linux/i'              =>  'Linux',
                        '/ubuntu/i'             =>  'Ubuntu',
                        '/iphone/i'             =>  'iPhone',
                        '/ipod/i'               =>  'iPod',
                        '/ipad/i'               =>  'iPad',
                        '/android/i'            =>  'Android',
                        '/blackberry/i'         =>  'BlackBerry',
                        '/webos/i'              =>  'Mobile'

Browsers

                        '/msie/i'       =>  'Internet Explorer',
                        '/firefox/i'    =>  'Firefox',
                        '/safari/i'     =>  'Safari',
                        '/chrome/i'     =>  'Chrome',
                        '/opera/i'      =>  'Opera',
                        '/netscape/i'   =>  'Netscape',
                        '/maxthon/i'    =>  'Maxthon',
                        '/konqueror/i'  =>  'Konqueror',
                        '/mobile/i'     =>  'Handheld Browser'

Solution 4

This script should work:

<?php

        $useragent=$_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'];
        if(preg_match('/(android|bb\d+|meego).+mobile|avantgo|bada\/|blackberry|blazer|compal|elaine|fennec|hiptop|iemobile|ip(hone|od)|iris|kindle|lge |maemo|midp|mmp|mobile.+firefox|netfront|opera m(ob|in)i|palm( os)?|phone|p(ixi|re)\/|plucker|pocket|psp|series(4|6)0|symbian|treo|up\.(browser|link)|vodafone|wap|windows ce|xda|xiino/i',$useragent)||preg_match('/1207|6310|6590|3gso|4thp|50[1-6]i|770s|802s|a wa|abac|ac(er|oo|s\-)|ai(ko|rn)|al(av|ca|co)|amoi|an(ex|ny|yw)|aptu|ar(ch|go)|as(te|us)|attw|au(di|\-m|r |s )|avan|be(ck|ll|nq)|bi(lb|rd)|bl(ac|az)|br(e|v)w|bumb|bw\-(n|u)|c55\/|capi|ccwa|cdm\-|cell|chtm|cldc|cmd\-|co(mp|nd)|craw|da(it|ll|ng)|dbte|dc\-s|devi|dica|dmob|do(c|p)o|ds(12|\-d)|el(49|ai)|em(l2|ul)|er(ic|k0)|esl8|ez([4-7]0|os|wa|ze)|fetc|fly(\-|_)|g1 u|g560|gene|gf\-5|g\-mo|go(\.w|od)|gr(ad|un)|haie|hcit|hd\-(m|p|t)|hei\-|hi(pt|ta)|hp( i|ip)|hs\-c|ht(c(\-| |_|a|g|p|s|t)|tp)|hu(aw|tc)|i\-(20|go|ma)|i230|iac( |\-|\/)|ibro|idea|ig01|ikom|im1k|inno|ipaq|iris|ja(t|v)a|jbro|jemu|jigs|kddi|keji|kgt( |\/)|klon|kpt |kwc\-|kyo(c|k)|le(no|xi)|lg( g|\/(k|l|u)|50|54|\-[a-w])|libw|lynx|m1\-w|m3ga|m50\/|ma(te|ui|xo)|mc(01|21|ca)|m\-cr|me(rc|ri)|mi(o8|oa|ts)|mmef|mo(01|02|bi|de|do|t(\-| |o|v)|zz)|mt(50|p1|v )|mwbp|mywa|n10[0-2]|n20[2-3]|n30(0|2)|n50(0|2|5)|n7(0(0|1)|10)|ne((c|m)\-|on|tf|wf|wg|wt)|nok(6|i)|nzph|o2im|op(ti|wv)|oran|owg1|p800|pan(a|d|t)|pdxg|pg(13|\-([1-8]|c))|phil|pire|pl(ay|uc)|pn\-2|po(ck|rt|se)|prox|psio|pt\-g|qa\-a|qc(07|12|21|32|60|\-[2-7]|i\-)|qtek|r380|r600|raks|rim9|ro(ve|zo)|s55\/|sa(ge|ma|mm|ms|ny|va)|sc(01|h\-|oo|p\-)|sdk\/|se(c(\-|0|1)|47|mc|nd|ri)|sgh\-|shar|sie(\-|m)|sk\-0|sl(45|id)|sm(al|ar|b3|it|t5)|so(ft|ny)|sp(01|h\-|v\-|v )|sy(01|mb)|t2(18|50)|t6(00|10|18)|ta(gt|lk)|tcl\-|tdg\-|tel(i|m)|tim\-|t\-mo|to(pl|sh)|ts(70|m\-|m3|m5)|tx\-9|up(\.b|g1|si)|utst|v400|v750|veri|vi(rg|te)|vk(40|5[0-3]|\-v)|vm40|voda|vulc|vx(52|53|60|61|70|80|81|83|85|98)|w3c(\-| )|webc|whit|wi(g |nc|nw)|wmlb|wonu|x700|yas\-|your|zeto|zte\-/i',substr($useragent,0,4)))

        { 
            //echo "mobile";
        }
        else{
           // echo "desktop";
        }
?>

I came across it here: http://detectmobilebrowsers.com/ .

Solution 5

There are many great open source projects that make detection a lot easier. To name two:

1. PHP mobile detect
2. WURFL

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Comments

[Toping]

he wants to detect if its mobile or desktop not the user agent

[Toping]

how about android? firefox os? windows phone?

[Robert Lee]

As you go you can output what $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'] output but basically inside of the first section you can add the name of the Platform.

[Luka]

Shouldn't it be if { } else {} ?

[Krzysztof Duszczyk]

@luka if there will be only one line of code you don't need to use braces, but PSR said you should anyway.

[Javier Arias]

mobiledetect is now available through composer: composer require mobiledetect/mobiledetectlib

[Sid]

yea, but be careful, this snippet has "Regex updated: 1 August 2014".

[Rocky Kev]

From the looks of this -- this will also catch android tablets too, correct?

[Felipe Balduino Cassar]

I'm afraid I can't test this because I don't have an Android tablet around, but I suppose it would catch it too. I checked this link and looks like every tablet has the Android string.

[DonP]

This is very clean and easy to follow, especially after using one with preg_match but which no longer works as the world has moved beyond it. On the above, I would have thought that Mobile would find iPad's Firefox and Safari but neither is detected. The Opera browser is the only one I have where this works even after adding more devices to the list. From what I gather, Mobile should work for both Safari and Firefox.

[Abid Ali]

Bundle of thanks, its quite simple and working fine for me i added this in my custom php project.

[user3495363]

any way to bypass the chrome->inspect->mobile view mode? because it recognizes the desktop browser as a mobile :-(