{"id":229,"date":"2012-06-01T08:00:48","date_gmt":"2012-06-01T08:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pixert.com\/blog\/?p=229"},"modified":"2012-05-31T12:53:48","modified_gmt":"2012-05-31T12:53:48","slug":"php-conditional-statement-to-identify-ipad-or-ipod-or-iphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pixert.com\/blog\/php-conditional-statement-to-identify-ipad-or-ipod-or-iphone\/","title":{"rendered":"PHP Conditional statements to identify iPad or iPod or iPhone"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nThis tutorial will show you how to detect iPad or iPod or iPhone using PHP
\nDevices which request content from your website (usually) pass a user agent string. This contains information such as its name, OS, browser version, and rendering engine. Apple\u2019s gadgets pass the following user agents, although you may find subtle variations in the version numbers<\/p>\n

iPad user agent<\/p>\n

\r\nMozilla\/5.0 (iPad; U; CPU OS 3_2 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit\/531.21.10 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version\/4.0.4 Mobile\/7B334b Safari\/531.21.10\r\n<\/pre>\n
iPhone user agent<\/p>\n
\r\nHTTP_USER_AGENT=Mozilla\/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit\/420+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version\/3.0 Mobile\/1C25 Safari\/419.\r\n<\/pre>\n
iPhone user ageny<\/p>\n
\r\nMozilla\/5.0 (iPod; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit\/420.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version\/3.0 Mobile\/3A101a Safari\/419.3  \r\n<\/pre>\n
The following conditional statements can be used to identify iPad or iPod or iPhone<\/p>\n
\r\nif (preg_match("\/iP(od|hone|ad)\/i", $_SERVER["HTTP_USER_AGENT"])) { ... }\r\n<\/pre>\n
or<\/p>\n
\r\nif(strstr($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'],'iPhone') || strstr($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'],'iPod') || strstr($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'],'iPad')) { }\r\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This tutorial will show you how to detect iPad or iPod or iPhone using PHP Devices which request content from your website (usually) pass a user agent string. This contains information such as its name, OS, browser version, and rendering engine. 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