Hi John, your response was really
valuable. I felt kind of foolish for not having looked up a mobile
specific mailing list :-P I've joined up and started the searching
previous to actually posting the question.
The wordpress setup is a mix of user-agent, profile, mime-type and OS
detection.
There is also a PHP class that I found earlier that is actually a
pretty impressive piece of work as it stores a big library of over 2000
phones that includes some of the device capabilities, etc. It does
however seem like a futile effort as rather than having a big library
file, it has an endlessly growing bit of detection code.
See: http://phpclasses.goodphp.com/browse/file/7912.html
My fear is the maintainance nightmare either of those would create as
new devices come out, etc. but that may be what it comes down to hehe.
My hope is that I might find a database of some sort that is at least
maintained for me hehe.
As for the devices I'm trying to detect, I'm going for any mobile
device that is a non-desktop laptop machine...anything that might have
too small a screen for the main site. Phones, PDAs, blackberry devices,
etc. I don't need to know any of their features because all I'm going
to do is forward them to the mobile site.
The mobile site will be very simple and straight-forward text and menu
to minimize bandwidth for mobile users who often have to pay by the
bandwidth they use and provide something many different devices can use.
Thanks again,
Mike.
John Ivanoff wrote:
I am also interested in this too.
I don't know if answer lives in here but It might be worth a look.
mobile design sites and mail list. (I'm guessing they should have
discussions on detecting mobile devices.)
http://mobiledesign.org/
http://www.cameronmoll.com/archives/000577.html
wordpress has a mobile plugin
http://www.andymoore.info/wordpress-mobile-plugin/
some code (php)
http://www.andymoore.info/php-to-detect-mobile-phones/
mobile meaning PDA, blackberry or phone? My little phone only has a
color 128px X 128px display.
Another good article to read that will help in layout for mobile/low
vision site.
http://www.stopdesign.com/log/2005/06/24/zoom-layout.html
check out the preference page... http://www.stopdesign.com/about/prefs/
Once again I am throwing way too information.
John
(I have had too much Mountain Dew!!!)
On 4/24/07, Tom Woestman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Mike,
I am curious – I have not tackled this problem but am curious if you
tried
detecting the browser type and what problems you encountered if you
did?
Thanks,
Tom
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of
Mike Kelp
Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 8:12 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [DFW CFUG] Mobile Device Detection
Hey everyone...I'm researching ways to detect and redirect mobile
devices to
a mobile site for one of my clients and thought I would see if anybody
on
the list has attacked this problem.
It seems there is not really a clean way to do it, but I can't even
find
one that seems to be the standard let alone reliable hehe.
So, anyone had to do mobile phone detection?
What was your solution and reason you picked it?
Thanks in advance,
Mike.
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