PDA friendly website redirection?

[John18]

say if someone went to www.hello.com on a PDA. Is there a snippet of PHP code that will identify the PDA device and automatically redirect the user to a PDA friendly website? Thanks.

[NogDog]

You might want to look at the get_browser() function (http://www.php.net/get-browser).

Or, you could try parsing the $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'] value.

[John18]

sorry im a beginner at PHP...

Could you perhaps write out the code that might work? Im interested to see if I can make a site that will redirect people with different devices e.g PDA.

[bokeh]

You should really try to make all your pages accessible by all devices! Then if you want them to display in a particular way in a particular device you would write a different stylesheet for that device.

[John18]

but what if the website has been built from scratch to be viewed from a small screen PDA?

[bokeh]

I thought the idea of the web was to have as wide an audience as possible.

[John18]

thats why ive built seperate websites designed for each different device...so everyone can view the web page. I just need a good redirection script.

[bokeh]

You probably should use the same webpage but a different style sheet for PDAs. Any element that you consider might be problematic for the PDA you would hide using the PDA stylesheet.

I know I am not answering your question directly and the truth is I don't know the answer (maybe someone else does) but the whole idea of stylesheets is they affect how the content is displayed, not the content itself.

Are you saying you want different text for the PDAs?

[John18]

well its a completely different information site so I dont know how a stylesheet could help...

Its different navigation, images etc...