Thread: PWC-Gaming Mobile

I have just released a very beta version of our Mobile website. It is intended for devices that do not have the large screens and piles of bandwidth.

the address is m.pwc-gaming.com

I did not make this a hyperlink because if you click this on a computer it will throw the site's theme off for you. Not fun.

awesome now I can visit the site more since I just got the internet on my phone

Originally Posted by Refresh

Very cool! Just wondering, are you doing any kind of detection of mobile browser? or assuming that everyone that goes there is mobile?

Am working on some mobile-related items for my own thing, and trying to figure out how to automatically detect a mobile device and redirect accordingly...

As the self-proclaimed best web guy around, (Please do not fact check this) You do mobile detection using user_agent.

Here is a great example.

Code:

<?php

/**
 * Mobile Detect
 *
 * @license    http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php The MIT License
 * @version    SVN: $Id: Mobile_Detect.php 3 2009-05-21 13:06:28Z vic.stanciu $
 */

class Mobile_Detect {
    
    protected $accept;
    protected $userAgent;
    
    protected $isMobile     = false;
    protected $isAndroid    = null;
    protected $isBlackberry = null;
    protected $isOpera      = null;
    protected $isPalm       = null;
    protected $isWindows    = null;
    protected $isGeneric    = null;

    protected $devices = array(
        "android"       => "android",
        "blackberry"    => "blackberry",
        "iphone"        => "(iphone|ipod)",
        "opera"         => "opera mini",
        "palm"          => "(avantgo|blazer|elaine|hiptop|palm|plucker|xiino)",
        "windows"       => "windows ce; (iemobile|ppc|smartphone)",
        "generic"       => "(kindle|mobile|mmp|midp|o2|pda|pocket|psp|symbian|smartphone|treo|up.browser|up.link|vodafone|wap)"
    );


    public function __construct() {
        $this->userAgent = $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'];
        $this->accept    = $_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT'];

        if (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_X_WAP_PROFILE'])|| isset($_SERVER['HTTP_PROFILE'])) {
            $this->isMobile = true;
        } elseif (strpos($this->accept,'text/vnd.wap.wml') > 0 || strpos($accept,'application/vnd.wap.xhtml+xml') > 0) {
            $this->isMobile = true;
        } else {
            foreach ($this->devices as $device => $regexp) {
                if ($this->isDevice($device)) {
                    $this->isMobile = true;
                }
            }
        }
    }


    /**
     * Overloads isAndroid() | isBlackberry() | isOpera() | isPalm() | isWindows() | isGeneric() through isDevice()
     *
     * @param string $name
     * @param array $arguments
     * @return bool
     */
    public function __call($name, $arguments) {
        $device = substr($name, 2);
        if ($name == "is" . ucfirst($device)) {
            return $this->isDevice($device);
        } else {
            trigger_error("Method $name not defined", E_USER_ERROR);
        }
    }


    /**
     * Returns true if any type of mobile device detected, including special ones
     * @return bool
     */
    public function isMobile() {
        return $this->isMobile;
    }


    protected function isDevice($device) {
        $var    = "is" . ucfirst($device);
        $return = $this->$var === null ? (bool) preg_match("/" . $this->devices[$device] . "/i", $this->userAgent) : $this->$var;

        if ($device != 'generic' && $return == true) {
            $this->isGeneric = false;
        }

        return $return;
    }
}

From this it may spark some ideas for you. Right now we do detection along with the option for people to visit m.pwc-gaming.com just incase the detection doesn't work, it isn't 100% as some phones have custom browsers.