scriptygoddess

1 | Doc

March 16th, 2004 at 1:08 pm

I actually use my .htaccess to accomplish this quite well. A while back I wrote an article on how I accomplished this: http://www.seadoc.net/sd/archives/individual/2003/03/20030315-htaccess_tricks_browser_sniffing.php

The system has been refined a little since then and if you would like my current code just e-mail me and I'll be happy to share.

Also you can look at this thread: http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=140485
for some other ideas and ways to accomplish this.

2 | Doc

March 16th, 2004 at 2:13 pm

Since I got swamped with e-mails, I'll just post the most current PDA Browser code I am using here. Not really many changes, just cleaned up a little.

Remember, you must have Mod_ReWrite enabled and RewriteEngine ON listed at the top in your .htaccess for this code to work.

NOTE: If anyone has any other PDA UserAgents, Plese e-mail me so I can keep this code up to date.

#browser redirects For PDA Based Browsers
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} "Windows CE" [NC,OR] #Windows CE and Pocket PC
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} "NetFront" [NC,OR] #PalmSource WebBrowser 2.0
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} "Palm OS" [NC,OR] #Eudora Web Browser for Palm
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} "Blazer" [NC,OR] #Handspring Blazer Browser
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} "Elaine" [NC,OR] #RIM Devices
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} "^WAP.*$" [NC,OR] #WAP Browsers
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} "Plucker" [NC,OR] #Plucker Offline download client
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} "AvantGo" [NC] #AvantGo Service
RewriteRule ^index\.php http://www.yourdomain.net/pda.php [L,R]

3 | Jennifer

March 16th, 2004 at 2:21 pm

Thanks Doc!! You rock!!

hey, that rhymes! 😀

4 | János

March 16th, 2004 at 4:13 pm

Yes, that's a truly elegant solution (why do us, geeks, love that .htaccess file so much? :D). However if you're webhost doesn't support .htaccess rewriting for whatever reason and you're using PHP pages here's a snippet of code that should work. You can include it at the begining of your pages BEFORE any output is generated otherwise it won't work.

<?
  $pda_agents = Array('Windows CE', 'NetFront', 'Palm OS', 'Blazer', 'Elaine', 'WAP', 'Plucker', 'AvantGo');
  $http_user_agent = $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'];
  foreach($pda_agents as $pda_agent) {
    $found = stristr($http_user_agent, $pda_agent);
    if($found) header('Location: pda.php');
  }
?>

(I shamelesly stole Doc's user agent signatures, please don't shoot me! :D)

5 | Kitsched

March 16th, 2004 at 5:14 pm

Not much going on…
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6 | Mike

October 15th, 2004 at 11:30 am

Anyone know of a script that will redirect for wap phones please email me and let me know, Mike

7 | Luke

June 2nd, 2005 at 1:42 am

These postings are probably a bit out of date. But for anyone else that might stumble across this like I did hereis some more info on mobile browser agent ids
Mobile ID's