Detect a mobile device

[Chris89]

I know there's a way to do this, because I distinctly remember seeing a method named something like IsMobile in one of the files while I was creating my site integration several months back. But I can't for the life of me remember where I saw it and I can't find it anywhere now having checked in the places you'd expect, such as Sessions, Members and Request.

Does anyone know where the code for this is so I can look at it?

[bfarber]

There's no way to do this in PHP with stock code. Your options are

1. You can reference \IPS\Session::i()->userAgent and based on the browser or platform property, determine yourself if you consider it a mobile request.

2. You can use javascript and check ips.utils.responsive.currentIs('phone') which is determined based on responsive breakpoints rather than the platform.

[Chris89]

Thanks for this. I'm not sure where I thought I'd seen that method then, but I genuinely could have sworn it was in IPS.

[Matt]

Way back in the 3.x series, we did have inbuilt methods in PHP to detect a mobile device, so we could show a different theme. In 4, we removed that and created a responsive theme that resizes automatically.

[Chris89]

Hmm thanks. Must have been that which I looked at then, but I genuinely thought it was 4.x. For those who are interested I managed to solve my problem by just using this simple class here, which does all of the work for you: Mobile Detect - lightweight PHP class for detecting mobile devices (including tablets