Any advice about delivering different content to mobiles

Hi all,

Am having to deal with Blackberry issues for a Thai site. In the UK my customers never mention Blackberrys but in Thailand they are in popular use (apparently). So I have decided to use a device detection to deliver a different layout (or even content if required) as normal responsive type css and media queries are not working. Even Jquery does not support Blackberry which was news to me :-(

How would I go about changing the template used depending on the results of the php detection script? Or should I create all the site content in chunks and use a single snippet call in each page, to deliver the content. Chunks in this case I suppose being almost entire pages with almost blank template files?

There must be a better way of doing it. It might be the case that to achieve this I have to build the site in pure php.

Can anyone offer any advice or suggestions about how I could best achieve this,

Thank you in advance,

Paul.

Look a the Mobile Detection Extra
http://modx.com/extras/package/mobiledetection

Some additional documentation here, at the bottom it speaks of specific mobile detection parameters. That might be just what you need to target Blackberry specifically.

http://modx.s3.amazonaws.com/extras/591/mobile1.4.1.txt

Quote from: frogabog at May 20, 2013, 06:19 PM

Some additional documentation here, at the bottom it speaks of specific mobile detection parameters. That might be just what you need to target Blackberry specifically.

http://modx.s3.amazonaws.com/extras/591/mobile1.4.1.txt

Wow, that looks perfect!

"Blackberry - Set to true to treat Blackberry like a mobile, false to treat it like full browser or set a URL (including http://) to redirect Blackberry users to."

Had just been reading about http://blog.mobileesp.com/ and the way it does it, however the details within the documentation here seems perfect - I can really target the individual groups that are causing problems.

Thank you very much! I will explore this in much greater detail in the morning and give it a go.

I will go to sleep tonight a lot more easily

Thank you again,

Best wishes,

Paul.