README.md

Motto: "Every business should have a mobile detection script to detect mobile readers."

Mobile_Detect is a lightweight PHP class for detecting mobile devices (including tablets). It uses the User-Agent string combined with specific HTTP headers to detect the mobile environment.

You may consider this script as being part of the RESS (Responsive Web Design with Server-Side Component) movement. You can find out more on the topic by reading these articles: Improve Mobile Support With Server-Side-Enhanced Responsive Design and RESS: Responsive Design + Server Side Components. Related presentations: Creating mobile apps with PHP & Symfony2 (2013), Responsive Design (2013)

How reliable is this script?

The script is as reliable as Server-Side detection can be. This is not a replacement for Responsive Web Design (media queries) or other forms of Client-Side detection. Read W3C's Mobile Web Application Best Practices Prefer Server-Side Detection Where Possible section. We're running automated tests to make sure the we don't break the detection every time we update it with new devices and also to avoid regex collisions.

The script is updated on daily and weekly basis, so make sure you keep following the updates! Sometimes is hard to distinguish between a phone and a tablet, this is why we're constantly researching a lot of mobile vendors sites, checking product codes and new releases.

Download and demo

Latest releases, Latest dev branch, composer package

See also: 💡 Become a contributor / ☕ History / 👉 Code examples / 📱 Live demo! (point your device browser to this URL)

Help

I'm currently paying for hosting and spend a lot of my family time 👪 to maintain the project and planning the future releases. I would highly appreciate any money donations that will keep the research going.

Special thanks to the community 👍 for donations, BrowserStack - for providing access to their great platform, Zend - for donating licenses, Dragos Gavrila who contributed with the logo.

3rd party modules / [Submit new](https://github.com/serbanghita/Mobile-Detect/issues/new?title=New%203rd%20party%20module&body=Name, Link and Description of the module.)

👉 The recommendation is that you keep Mobile_Detect.php class in a separate module and not include it in your script core because of the high frequency of updates.

Wordpress	Wordpress Mobile Detect - Gives you the ability to wrap that infographic in a [notdevice][/notdevice] shortcode so at the server level WordPress will decide to show that content only if the user is NOT on a phone or tablet. Made by Jesse Friedman. <p><a href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/mobble/">mobble</a> - provides mobile related conditional functions for your site. e.g. is_iphone(), is_mobile() and is_tablet(). Made by Scott Evans.</p> <p><a href="https://github.com/iamspacehead/responsage">Wordpress Responsage</a> - A small <code>WordPress</code> theme plugin that allows you to make your images responsive. Made by <a href="https://github.com/iamspacehead">Adrian Ciaschetti</a>.</p> <p><a href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/social-popup/">Social PopUP</a> - This plugin will display a popup or splash screen when a new user visit your site showing a Google+, Twitter and Facebook follow links. It uses Mobile_Detect to detect mobile devices.</p>
Drupal	Drupal Mobile Switch - The Mobile Switch Drupal module provides a automatic theme switch functionality for mobile devices, detected by Browscap or Mobile Detect. Made by Siegfried Neumann. <p><a href="http://drupal.org/project/context_mobile_detect">Drupal Context Mobile Detect</a> - This is a <code>Drupal context</code> module which integrates Context and PHP Mobile Detect library. Created by <a href="http://drupal.org/user/432492">Artem Shymko</a>.</p> <p><a href="http://drupal.org/project/mobile_detect">Drupal Mobile Detect</a> - Lightweight mobile detect module for <code>Drupal</code> created by <a href="http://drupal.org/user/325244">Matthew Donadio</a></p>
Joomla	yagendoo Joomla! Mobile Detection Plugin - Lightweight PHP plugin for Joomla! that detects a mobile browser using the Mobile Detect class. Made by yagendoo media.
Magento	Magento - This Magento helper from Optimise Web enables the use of all functions provided by MobileDetect.net. Made by Kathir Vel.
PrestaShop	Free, secure and open source shopping cart platform. Included in the distribution since 1.5.x.
Zend Framework	ZF2 Mobile-Detect - Zend Framework 2 module that provides Mobile-Detect features (Mobile_Detect class as a service, helper for views and plugin controllers). Made by neilime
Symfony	Symfony2 Mobile Detect Bundle - The bundle for detecting mobile devices, manage mobile view and redirect to the mobile and tablet version. Made by Nikolay Ivlev. Silex Mobile Detect Service Provider - Silex service provider to interact with Mobile detect class methods. Made by Lhassan Baazzi.
ExpressionEngine	EE2 Detect Mobile - Lightweight PHP plugin for EE2 that detects a mobile browser using the Mobile Detect class. Made by Gareth Davies.
Yii Framework	Yii Extension - Mobile detect plugin for Yii framework. Made by Alexey Salnikov.
CakePHP	CakePHP MobileDetect - plugin component for CakePHP 2.x. Made by Gregory Gaskill
FuelPHP	Special Agent is a FuelPHP package which uses php-mobile-detect to determine whether a device is mobile or not. It overrides the Fuelphp Agent class its methods. Made by Robbie Bardjin.
Statamic	Statamic CMS Mobile Detect - plugin. Made by Sergei Filippov.
mobile-detect.js	A JavaScript port of Mobile-Detect class. Made by Heinrich Goebl
python	pymobiledetect - Mobile detect python package. Made by Bas van Oostveen.
MemHT	MemHT is a Free PHP CMS and Blog that permit the creation and the management online of websites with few and easy steps. Has the class included in the core.
concrete5	concrete5 is a CMS that is free and open source. The library is included in the core.
engine7	ExEngine 7 PHP Open Source Framework. The Mobile_Detect class is included in the engine.
Zikula	Zikula is a free and open-source Content Management Framework, which allows you to run impressive websites and build powerful online applications. The core uses Mobile-Detect to switch to a special Mobile theme, using jQueryMobile
UserAgentInfo	UserAgentInfo is a PHP class for parsing user agent strings (HTTP_USER_AGENT). Includes mobile checks, bot checks, browser types/versions and more. Based on browscap, Mobile_Detect and ua-parser. Created for high traffic websites and fast batch processing. Made by quentin389
RexBrowscap	RexBrowscap - Addon for Redaxo CMS - bundles phpbrowscap, mobile-detect and some client side funcs for detecting UA capabilities in one package. Made by jdlx
Craft CMS	LJ Mobile Detect is a simple implementation of Mobile Detect for Craft CMS. Made by Lewis Jenkins