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What's Covered

This tutorial illustrates how to return a match for a Device Id. It shows how to first get the Device Id from a match, then get a match for that Device Id and return the value of the IsMobile property. This can be useful to look at devices that have already been matched at a previous date.

Code and Explanation

Match with device id example of using 51Degrees device detection. The example shows how to:

  1. Fetch a pointer to the 51Degrees device detection provider instance. This is instantiated on server startup and uses settings from php.ini.

    												
    $provider = FiftyOneDegreesPatternV3::provider_get();
    
    												

  • Produce a match for a single device id

    									
    my $match = $provider->getMatchForDeviceId($userAgent)
    
    									
  • Extract the value of the IsMobile property

    									
    $match->getValue('IsMobile')
    
    									
    This example assumes you have the 51Degrees PHP API installed correctly, and have FiftyOneDegreesPatternV3.php in this directory.

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    require("../pattern/FiftyOneDegreesPatternV3.php");
    $provider = FiftyOneDegreesPatternV3::provider_get();
    
    // User-Agent string of an iPhone mobile device.
    $mobileUserAgent = "Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 7_1 like Mac OS X) ".
    "AppleWebKit/537.51.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) 'Version/7.0 Mobile/11D167 ".
    "Safari/9537.53";
    
    // User-Agent string of Firefox Web browser version 41 on desktop.
    $desktopUserAgent = "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:41.0) ".
    "Gecko/20100101 Firefox/41.0";
    
    // User-Agent string of a MediaHub device.
    $mediaHubUserAgent = "Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 4.4.2; X7 Quad Core ".
    "Build/KOT49H) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 ".
    "Chrome/30.0.0.0 Safari/537.36";
    
    // Fetches the device id for a mobile User-Agent.
    $match = $provider->getMatch($mobileUserAgent);
    $mobileDeviceId = $match->getDeviceId();
    
    // Fetches the device id for a desktop User-Agent.
    $match = $provider->getMatch($desktopUserAgent);
    $desktopDeviceId = $match->getDeviceId();
    
    // Fetches the device id for a MediaHub User-Agent.
    $match = $provider->getMatch($mediaHubUserAgent);
    $mediaHubDeviceId = $match->getDeviceId();
    
    echo "Starting Match With Device Id Example<br>\n";
    
    // Carries out a match with a mobile device id.
    echo "<br>\nMobile Device Id: ".$mobileDeviceId."<br>\n";
    $match = $provider->getMatchForDeviceId($mobileDeviceId);
    echo "   IsMobile: ".$match->getValue("IsMobile")."<br>\n";
    
    // Carries out a match with a desktop device id.
    echo "<br>\nDesktop Device Id: ".$desktopDeviceId."<br>\n";
    $match = $provider->getMatchForDeviceId($desktopDeviceId);
    echo "   IsMobile: ".$match->getValue("IsMobile")."<br>\n";
    
    // Carries out a match with a MediaHub device id.
    echo "<br>\nMediaHub DeviceId: ".$mediaHubDeviceId."<br>\n";
    $match = $provider->getMatchForDeviceId($mediaHubDeviceId);
    echo "   IsMobile: ".$match->getValue("IsMobile")."<br>\n";
    
    
    												
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  • Summary

    In this tutorial you have seen how to use the detector to retrieve the IsMobile property for a pre-defined Device ID string. The example can easily be modified to retrieve the value of any other property. Premium and Enterprise data files provide considerably more properties such as IsCrawler , PriceBand , HardwareVendor and ScreenInchesWidth . For a full list of properties and the data files they exist in please see the Property Dictionary .