Comments on: auto-redirect for PDAs

By: Luke

Luke — Thu, 02 Jun 2005 05:42:44 +0000

These postings are probably a bit out of date.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

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 15 Oct 2004 15:30:28 +0000

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

By: Kitsched

Kitsched — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

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By: János

János — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Yes, that's a truly elegant solution (why do us, geeks, love that .htaccess file so much? ). 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! )

By: Doc

Doc — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

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.

By: Doc

Doc — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

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]

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Thanks Doc!! You rock!!

hey, that rhymes!