Detect Mobile Devices - PHP - $_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT']

[Jayram121]

PHP - $_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT']

If I use the above code, which part of the results will determine if it is an android phone or a mobile device?

[trq]

None.

[fastsol]

Google has a php class that is used for this

http://code.google.com/p/php-mobile-detect/

[Jayram121]

If it is none; then why we use it in the   

Detect Mobile Devices

[trq]

 

If it is none; then why we use it in the   

Detect Mobile Devices

 

 

I'm not sure what that statement means.

[.josh]

$_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT'] just specifies what type of file types or media the client can/will accept as a response. This isn't really useful for mobile device detection specifically, though indirectly I suppose you could use it for some feature detection, which I guess is indirectly relevant to displaying stuff..

 

Anyways, normally you would parse $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'] to detect the mobile device.