How to Detect If a Website Is Being Browsed Through a Mobile Device with PHP

Last Updated on Sunday, 20 May 2012 12:37 Written by Richi González Friday, 9 March 2012 12:00

Hello,

As technology is changing, and a great percentage of the total Internet users browse the web through their mobile devices, it’s become essential for a web developer, to add support for these devices. This can be achieved in various ways, but today, I’ll show you how to do it with PHP.

Difficulty level: Easy

1. Open up the header.php file of your website or the index.php file; if you just want to test it, simply create a new PHP file.

2. At the top, add the following: