Why attempt to identify mobile users? why not let them decide if they want the stripped down mobile site, or the full fat desktop site. I think it would be better if you setup an alternative URL for users who want the stripped down site such as: http://m.<yoursite>.com

That way users who are using fancy smartphones and tablets with large screens and fast data connections can choose to use the desktop site if they want to, while users on underpowered desktop computers on the end of slow dial up connections can use the mobile site to save on bandwith and site complexity.

Having said that, if you realy need to identify mobile browsers, then take a look at WURFL. It is a database of thousands of mobile browser user agent strings, with the properties of each device so you can taylor a site for screen size, JavaScript support etc.

There is a perl module Mobile::Wurfl to interface to WURFL though when I tried using it I found it did not have enough features. The author did not accept a patch I sent, so I ended up writing my own WURFL libary which my employer will not allow me to share.

In reply to Re: Grabbing query string by chrestomanci
in thread Grabbing query string by htmanning

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