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Asked: 2026-06-03T10:52:48+00:00

I’m trying to dynamically modify (server-side) the output of a page, whether the user

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I’m trying to dynamically modify (server-side) the output of a page, whether the user is accessing it from a mobile device or not…

I’m using $user_agent, which gets me this, if I access the page from my Chrome on my laptop: 

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/536.10 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/20.0.1123.4 Safari/536.10

I could ask if $user_agent contains MSIE or Mozilla or Windows or whatever (I’d appreciate a clever list for keywords)… but was just wondering if there was a better solution to this?

Thanks in advance.

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  1. Editorial Team

    There are tons of user agent strings out there for desktop browsers, when we are speaking about mobile devices it’s even worse.

    I recommend you to use the WURFL library to check whether the actual devices are mobile or not, instead of building your own list.

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