MobileDetect, PHP mobile detection class

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Mobile Detect

MobileDetect, PHP mobile detection class

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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.

Before you install

MobileDetect is maintained on one rolling branch per major line. Tags follow the pattern <major>.<minor>.<patch> and always live on the matching branch.

VersionTestsNamespaceBranchPHP VersionPurpose
2.*2.x tests\Mobile_Detect2.x>=5.6,<7.0Deprecated
3.*3.x testsDetection\MobileDetect3.x>=7.4,<8.0LTS
4.*4.x testsDetection\MobileDetect4.x>=8.2 (since 4.10.0, previously >=8.0)Current, Recommended

๐Ÿค Supporting

If you are using Mobile Detect open-source package in your production apps, in presentation demos, hobby projects, school projects or so, you can sponsor my work by donating a small amount :+1:.

I'm currently paying for domains, 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.

Special thanks to:

  • the community :+1: for donations, submitting patches and issues
  • Gitbook team for the open-source license for their technical documentation tool.

๐Ÿ“ƒ Documentation

The entire documentation is available on Gitbook: https://docs.mobiledetect.net

๐Ÿ‘พ Demo

Point your device to: https://demo.mobiledetect.net

๐Ÿ› Testing

vendor/bin/phpunit -v -c tests/phpunit.xml --coverage-html .coverage

๐Ÿค Contributing

Please see the Contribute guide for details.

๐Ÿ”’ Security

If you discover any security related issues, please email serbanghita@gmail.com instead of using the issue tracker.

๐ŸŽ‰ Credits