[TYPO3-english] Properly detecting mobile devices with TYPO3 4.5?

[Steffen Müller]

Hi.

On 11.05.2011 15:39 François Suter wrote:
>
> In the latest versions of TYPO3 there was quite a revamp of the client
> detection functions (t3lib_utility_Client) but I'm still puzzled as how
> to properly detect mobile devices. I can see that if I use the
> "all_systems" property returned by
> t3lib_utility_Client::getBrowserInfo() I can check for Android and iOs.
> That will obviously cover a vast majority of the mobile devices/smart
> phones on the market. But there are others. Is there any way to detect
> them using strictly the TYPO3 Core or is it still necessary to rely on
> third-party detection libraries?
>

We have good experience using 3rd party terawurfl, 
http://www.tera-wurfl.com/

Since clients change constantly it is hard to stay up-to-date with 
static detection routines in TYPO3 core.
Maybe a scheduler task to update client list using services would help 
in future. But we should not rely on a single service, but have multiple 
fallbacks. A regex as static test could be the last fallback. Could be 
solved with sv implementation :)

Btw. I found this regex on http://detectmobilebrowser.com/
This looks far more elaborated than actual t3lib_utility_Client.

<?php
$useragent=$_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'];
if(preg_match('/android|avantgo|blackberry|blazer|compal|elaine|fennec|hiptop|iemobile|ip(hone|od)|iris|kindle|lge 
|maemo|midp|mmp|opera m(ob|in)i|palm( 
os)?|phone|p(ixi|re)\/|plucker|pocket|psp|symbian|treo|up\.(browser|link)|vodafone|wap|windows 
(ce|phone)|xda|xiino/i',$useragent)||preg_match('/1207|6310|6590|3gso|4thp|50[1-6]i|770s|802s|a 
wa|abac|ac(er|oo|s\-)|ai(ko|rn)|al(av|ca|co)|amoi|an(ex|ny|yw)|aptu|ar(ch|go)|as(te|us)|attw|au(di|\-m|r 
|s 
)|avan|be(ck|ll|nq)|bi(lb|rd)|bl(ac|az)|br(e|v)w|bumb|bw\-(n|u)|c55\/|capi|ccwa|cdm\-|cell|chtm|cldc|cmd\-|co(mp|nd)|craw|da(it|ll|ng)|dbte|dc\-s|devi|dica|dmob|do(c|p)o|ds(12|\-d)|el(49|ai)|em(l2|ul)|er(ic|k0)|esl8|ez([4-7]0|os|wa|ze)|fetc|fly(\-|_)|g1 
u|g560|gene|gf\-5|g\-mo|go(\.w|od)|gr(ad|un)|haie|hcit|hd\-(m|p|t)|hei\-|hi(pt|ta)|hp( 
i|ip)|hs\-c|ht(c(\-| |_|a|g|p|s|t)|tp)|hu(aw|tc)|i\-(20|go|ma)|i230|iac( 
|\-|\/)|ibro|idea|ig01|ikom|im1k|inno|ipaq|iris|ja(t|v)a|jbro|jemu|jigs|kddi|keji|kgt( 
|\/)|klon|kpt |kwc\-|kyo(c|k)|le(no|xi)|lg( 
g|\/(k|l|u)|50|54|e\-|e\/|\-[a-w])|libw|lynx|m1\-w|m3ga|m50\/|ma(te|ui|xo)|mc(01|21|ca)|m\-cr|me(di|rc|ri)|mi(o8|oa|ts)|mmef|mo(01|02|bi|de|do|t(\-| 
|o|v)|zz)|mt(50|p1|v 
)|mwbp|mywa|n10[0-2]|n20[2-3]|n30(0|2)|n50(0|2|5)|n7(0(0|1)|10)|ne((c|m)\-|on|tf|wf|wg|wt)|nok(6|i)|nzph|o2im|op(ti|wv)|oran|owg1|p800|pan(a|d|t)|pdxg|pg(13|\-([1-8]|c))|phil|pire|pl(ay|uc)|pn\-2|po(ck|rt|se)|prox|psio|pt\-g|qa\-a|qc(07|12|21|32|60|\-[2-7]|i\-)|qtek|r380|r600|raks|rim9|ro(ve|zo)|s55\/|sa(ge|ma|mm|ms|ny|va)|sc(01|h\-|oo|p\-)|sdk\/|se(c(\-|0|1)|47|mc|nd|ri)|sgh\-|shar|sie(\-|m)|sk\-0|sl(45|id)|sm(al|ar|b3|it|t5)|so(ft|ny)|sp(01|h\-|v\-|v 
)|sy(01|mb)|t2(18|50)|t6(00|10|18)|ta(gt|lk)|tcl\-|tdg\-|tel(i|m)|tim\-|t\-mo|to(pl|sh)|ts(70|m\-|m3|m5)|tx\-9|up(\.b|g1|si)|utst|v400|v750|veri|vi(rg|te)|vk(40|5[0-3]|\-v)|vm40|voda|vulc|vx(52|53|60|61|70|80|81|83|85|98)|w3c(\-| 
)|webc|whit|wi(g 
|nc|nw)|wmlb|wonu|x700|xda(\-|2|g)|yas\-|your|zeto|zte\-/i',substr($useragent,0,4))) 

header('Location: http://detectmobilebrowser.com/mobile');
?>



-- 
cheers,
Steffen

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