Question

I am a beginner site developper, first post here. I am posting here because i find this subject particulary difficult to google..

So I was wondering if you surf to a website from 2 different devices, (eg. android / PC ), if a different HTML page is returned..
because sometimes you get like a “simplified” page on the smaller devices.

If so, how can i do this server side? Any handy links/tutorials i can follow? I would work with PHP and MySql.

I am asking this, because I want to develop a site using QR codes, so the biggest number of visitors will be from phones!

Tanks,
Mathias

Answer 1

Take a look at this PHP class.
It detects mobile devices:

• http://code.google.com/p/php-mobile-detect/

There are also very simple solutions and tutorials like this one:

• Detect mobile browser/user agent with PHP

Searching Google or StackOverflow will give you loads of examples!