Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 24th Apr 2008 22:45 UTC
We were always proud of OSNews' (and Gnomefiles.org's) mobile capabilities. We spent years collecting keywords to be able to automatically redirect or serve a mobile-formatted or WAP-formatted (wap.osnews.com) page to less capable browsers. We believe that this script can recognize 99% of the world's non-desktop browsers. We gave special care to not only phones, but PDAs, gaming devices, text browsers, even weird embedded systems browsers that most users have never heard of. Now, it's time to open source our PHP detection script so others can use it on their sites too. Download here, and read the included readme.txt file too before using. It explains what is what, and what its difference is compared to similar solutions found elsewhere. You can see the work this detection script does in our mobile statistics (OSNews serves about 1500 pageviews per day on non-desktop browsers via this script).
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2005-06-28
No, there was a reason why I wanted each keyword on its own line: so I can identify keywords and add a set of special variables if a specific keyword is set, and then later, modify my HTML code based on these variables. Because you see, there were some phones or some versions of browsers that required special cHTML writing because of bugs, so I had to exclude them like that. You don't see that in the version of the code I provided, but the original we used on osnews has those exceptions in. It was much more readable for me to do it like this instead of putting everything into arrays.
Edited 2008-04-25 02:36 UTC