PHP: Mobile Devices HTTP_USER_AGENT Strings

So You’re Going Mobile

It’s nice that at least you’re moving your site to mobile device. It’s really important. Now if you’re using PHP the question is how to detect the mobile browser.

HTTP_USER_AGENT

Every PHP developer knows that $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'] string optionally contain the browser that access your site, but what are the possible values of this string?

The Answer is …

in that really really full list of user agent strings: http://www.zytrax.com/tech/web/mobile_ids.html

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