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bubazoo · 12-19-05, 10:06 PM

I am a beta tester for a new Forum software product called FusionBB, and the developers are researching the best way to detect a ppc device to automatically use a ppc formatted skin.

He was thinking of either getting a list of user agents, or detecting mobile devices based on cookie or session_id's

what do you guys think is the best way to auto-detect if a user is using a mobile device?

any code examples would be greatly appreciated :)
I think the idea of forum software supporting mobile devices is a great idea, so I want to help if I can, but i know very little about PHP.

Right now I am working on a template that works quite well with the new forum, but I don't know how to detect for mobile devices using PHP, anyone have any code I can use for this?

thanks

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bubazoo Aximsite Rookie DAP Site StaffDAP Site StaffDAP Site Reviewer Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 24 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	detecting a PPC device on a webpage, best way? I am a beta tester for a new Forum software product called FusionBB, and the developers are researching the best way to detect a ppc device to automatically use a ppc formatted skin. He was thinking of either getting a list of user agents, or detecting mobile devices based on cookie or session_id's what do you guys think is the best way to auto-detect if a user is using a mobile device? any code examples would be greatly appreciated :) I think the idea of forum software supporting mobile devices is a great idea, so I want to help if I can, but i know very little about PHP. Right now I am working on a template that works quite well with the new forum, but I don't know how to detect for mobile devices using PHP, anyone have any code I can use for this? thanks Last edited by bubazoo; 12-19-05 at 10:10 PM.