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Last post 11-11-2008 2:17 AM by sameer_khanjit. 9 replies.

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Device detection: standard & mobile web applications

12-22-2003, 9:22 AM

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sion.lewis
Member since 10-04-2002, 10:27 AM
London
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Background:

I would like to host standard web pages as well as mobile web pages on a single website/virtual directory.

Questions:

Is there a simple way of sniffing out the machine type and then presenting either web or mobile application depending on the device?

Or is there a better solution other than creating separate website?

Many thanks

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Mr Siôn Lewis

sion.lewis@jbcp.co.uk

Re: Device detection: standard & mobile web applications

12-22-2003, 9:28 AM

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NetProfit
Member since 09-23-2002, 11:51 AM
Saint John, NB - Canada
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I don't have a short answer for you, but you could check out the IBuySpy Portal from this website. You can download the source code free. There is plenty of good examples in there, including rendering content for both conventional and mobile web browsers.

Jamie Kindred, CGA, MCSD

Re: Device detection: standard & mobile web applications

11-03-2008, 5:21 AM

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graphicguru
Member since 11-03-2008, 10:16 AM
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Hi this asp code.

<% Dim UserAgent, IsPocketPC, IsMME, IsThin UserAgent = Request.ServerVariables("HTTP_USER_AGENT") IsMME = (InStr(UserAgent, "MME") > 0) IsThin = (IsPocketPC Or IsMME) IsPocketPC = (InStr(UserAgent, "Windows CE") > 0) If (IsThin Or IsPocketPC) Then Response.Redirect("http://www.sitename.com/pda")Else Response.Redirect("http://www.sitename.com/index.htm")End If %>

</body></html>

save it as Default.asp and works fine im a designer not adeveloper i got it from googling, im looking to work in all mobiles and there browsers when i change to work this script in blackberry i changed "Windows CE" to "BlackBerry" it works fine but not in other do u find any where just post it.

http://mobiforge.com/developing/story/lightweight-device-detection-asp this link work fine for me. i have changed "Response.Write" to "Response.Redirect"

Filed under: Asp Mobile Detection and redirection

Re: Device detection: standard & mobile web applications

11-04-2008, 3:50 PM

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whyknott
Member since 11-04-2008, 8:27 PM
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Hi There!

I have found code that truly works in Mobile Redirection but it is in PHP. Can anyone out there help me convert the following Code to function in ASP ??? Thx

<?php

if(checkmobile()) header("Location:http://www.jamyershomes.com/mobile/index.html");

if(checkmobile()){
//code to execute if a mobile browser is detected
}

function checkmobile(){

if(preg_match("/iphone/i",$_SERVER["HTTP_USER_AGENT"])) return false;

if(isset($_SERVER["HTTP_X_WAP_PROFILE"])) return true;

if(preg_match("/wap\.|\.wap/i",$_SERVER["HTTP_ACCEPT"])) return true;

if(isset($_SERVER["HTTP_USER_AGENT"])){

$uamatches = array("midp", "j2me", "avantg", "docomo", "novarra", "palmos", "palmsource", "240x320", "opwv", "chtml", "pda", "windows\ ce", "mmp\/", "blackberry", "mib\/", "symbian", "wireless", "nokia", "hand", "mobi", "phone", "cdm", "up\.b", "audio", "SIE\-", "SEC\-", "samsung", "HTC", "mot\-", "mitsu", "sagem", "sony", "alcatel", "lg", "erics", "vx", "NEC", "philips", "mmm", "xx", "panasonic", "sharp", "wap", "sch", "rover", "pocket", "benq", "java", "pt", "pg", "vox", "amoi", "bird", "compal", "kg", "voda", "sany", "kdd", "dbt", "sendo", "sgh", "gradi", "jb", "\d\d\di", "moto");

foreach($uamatches as $uastring){
if(preg_match("/".$uastring."/i",$_SERVER["HTTP_USER_AGENT"])) return true;
}

}
return false;
}

?>

Re: Device detection: standard & mobile web applications

11-05-2008, 1:30 AM

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SKT_01
Member since 04-17-2007, 9:31 AM
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Hello,

you don't have a .NET server?

I would not recommend those "lightweight solutions" from dotmobi.

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Re: Device detection: standard & mobile web applications

11-05-2008, 8:42 AM

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whyknott
Member since 11-04-2008, 8:27 PM
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Yes, my host supports ASP. But it doesn't support certain functions in PHP so I want to convert the code in my last post to ASP to avoid complications. I think it may be okay I haven't had much trouble with it so far.

I have researched and tried implementing that code from mobiforge but I cannot figure out how to get it to work because it is "option explicit". I'm new to programming and I'm not sure how to "comment out the first two lines to avoid compilation errors". as it states on the page you linked to in your reply to my question.

Thanks

Re: Device detection: standard & mobile web applications

11-08-2008, 4:32 AM

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sameer_khanjit
Member since 12-10-2007, 8:06 AM
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http://www.codeproject.com/KB/mobile/All-about-a-mobile-websit.aspx

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Re: Device detection: standard & mobile web applications

11-10-2008, 8:51 AM

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whyknott
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Thank You. I will look into converting and be sure to bookmark codeproject.com !!

Re: Device detection: standard & mobile web applications

11-10-2008, 9:10 AM

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SKT_01
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Hello,

if you use the recommended solution of the Code Project article many mobile devices are not detected as such including one of the most used devices for browsing, i. e. the Apple iPhone.

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