Free: Mobile detection plug-infor identification of mobile devices in Joomla!

Great stuff

I was about to build this into my template but I guess now there is no need.
Are there any limitations on usage? Ie. can I use it in the main index file of a template and in any override?

Thanks for your work on this!

I've got the plugin installed and working, but am having trouble understanding how to use the MobileDetector::isMobile(); function.

For example, I want to detect if it's a mobile/tablet device and redirect to a sub-domain.

Could you provide any examples of using the functions?

Thanks!

Hello,

This plugin looks like the one I need, but I really have no idea of how to use it. I clicked 'download plug-in' which gave me a zip with a php script. What should I do now? Where do I have to put the file or the code? And can you explain step by step how to use the plugin? So what do I have to do so the visiter gets to an other page like the question above. I'm not very expert in php, so if you could explain everything it would be very handy.

Thanks in advantage,
Ian Wensink

Hi Yannick,

I want once it detects mobile device, to redirect to a sub domain. I've read the comments here and I have one question.

Where do I place this code?

if(MobileDetector::isMobile() === true)
{
// mobile device detected do redirect
header('Location: http://some.subdomain.com', true, 301);
exit;
}

On the root index page or on the template index page?

Kind regards,

Sammy

I originally used the php mobile detect code directly in my index.php this plugin is a real time saver thank-you for that.

I have a question however, is there a way to override mobile detection so that users have an option to view the desktop version of the site from the mobile device via a redirect?

Hi YannickS
Thanks for the reply.

If you can get a function working in the future for redirection that would a be great asset for this plugin.

I did a little research after posting here about whether my website users actually want to be forced to use a mobile site or have a choice of desktop or mobile and it was a split 50 50, so I have decided to take a different approach, I am however still using this great plugin all be it slightly different to how I originally intended

I think you would have to set a cookie and then check for it before redirecting.

Then you can direct to the mobile if nothing is set and if they choose desktop set a cookie which would be picked up the next time the page is loaded and then not redirect.

Neither one of these actually works. I have a Galaxy S4 and neither one shows information when echoing these below. User agent works and detecting if mobile works but not these.

MobileDetector::getPhoneDevices();

MobileDetector::getTabletDevices();

Hi! thanks for this incredibly useful plugin. I have a problem, I wonder if you can help.
I did an if/else to hide a particular module when loading on mobile devices, but it still loads it. Here is the code simplified:
countModules('login')) : ?>













Thank you,

First of all, thank you for this handy plugin!

When i activate Joomla cache, it doesn't work as expected, though. I use the plugin in order do distinguish between desktop and mobile navigation. When i browse the site simultaneously on a desktop and a mobile browser i often get the wrong site elements with cache turned on.

Did anybody encounter the same problems yet and is there a solution?

Thanks

Hello,
Can anyone provide an example of "View full site" redirection with cookie?
I try to avoid loop redirections to the site's mobile version.
I tried something like this, but it always ends with loading the mobile site:
if(MobileDetector::isMobile() === true && isset($_COOKIE['mobile']))
{
return false;
} else {
header('Location: http://m.site.com', true, 301);
exit;
}

... and on the mobile landing page:
setcookie("mobile","m", time()+3600, "/");

Thanks!

404 not found on download link!

Hi!!

The plugin works perfect! But I want to know if there is a way to check if the user is on an iPhone?
Maybe something like this?: $phone = MobileDetector::getPhoneDevices();
if($phone == "iPhone")
do something...

Hi.

First, I would like to tell that it seems to be a very promising plugin (didn't use it yet).
My question is: Can I "load a module if it is mobile", or "not load a module if it is mobile"?

Like:
MobileDetector::isMobile();
or
MobileDetector::isNOTMobile();

(forgive me the IsNOTMobile, but I don't know the proper command to detect a "not mobile browser". Maybe it's something like !isMobile?).

Thank's!

I need some help! I'm trying to use this plugin in Joomla-virtuemart on a default_products.php page that gets displayed in an html template, without success.

I originally tried Serbanghita's plugin without luck and them tried this Joomla plugin.

I'm assuming I don't need to call the plugin up on any page, once it's installed and actiavted?

I'm trying to use the output to create a conditional callup - and it's not working:

// Show Products ?>
isMobile() && !$detect->isTablet() ) { ?>





The end result is, whatever appears above that conditional segment appears live but without any formatting, and whatever should appear from that conditional segment onwards doesn't get displayed at all. What am I doing wrong?

I thought I had this working perfectly but it detects Chrome on a desktop as mobile, all other browsers I've tried (desktop and Android) work ok, any thoughts as to why this should be? I've tried on a completely different machine and it's exactly the same, use Chrome (Version 41.0.2272.89 m) from a desktop and the plugin thinks I'm mobile.

Thanks,

Ian

Ignore my earlier post regarding Chrome (unless you've come here with the same problem) I downloaded the plugin again and it's working fine now so I guess there must have been an update.

Thanks for a really useful solution.

Ian

Hi, how do I script the code to see if a device is using the android stock browser?

Hi, how do I script a query to see if the browser is the Android stock browser?

Hi, how do I write the query to detect if a browser is the Android Stock browser?

...is there also a way of identifying the Chrome browser on Android devices?

Hi there!
How can I find if visitor is using the tablet? Because there is no function or method "MobileDetector::isTablet();". And how can I find what OS is using by visitor? I need to know if it's iOS. Can You show some examples or link to documentation? Thank You!

how can hidde modules?

With reference to the following post:

Michael Thursday, 13 March 2014
FYI: we managed to bypass the problem by using a thirdparty cache extension.

Can you please provide more details?
I have same issue - plugin does not work when cache is on.

Madhvee