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Re: Send IE6 user to a specific resource

leaase — Jul 21, 2010, 07:02 AM

Thanks for all the tips and feedback. I have made the following plugin and tested it in IE6 and it works:

makeUrl(32);
$resId = $modx->resourceIdentifier;
  
if($modx->event->name == $event) {
  if($resId != 32){
    $ua = $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'];
  
    if (strpos($ua,'MSIE') != false && strpos($ua,'Opera') === false) {
      if (strpos($ua,'Windows NT 5.2') != false) {
        if(strpos($ua,'.NET CLR') === false) return;
      }
      if (substr($ua,strpos($ua,'MSIE')+5,1) < 7) {
        header('Location: ' . $url);
      }
    }
  }
}
?>

Don’t know if this is the best solution, but it works for me, and the startpage is not loaded at all before the redirect occurs

If anyone spots any way to optimize this code please reply here

Re: Send IE6 user to a specific resource

sottwell — Jul 20, 2010, 11:05 PM

Here’s a list of the basic parser events, their order, and what they can use http://sottwell.com/system-events.html

Re: Send IE6 user to a specific resource

goldsky — Jul 20, 2010, 09:22 PM

You can try it as a plugin, run the event at the OnWebPageInit

Re: Send IE6 user to a specific resource

leaase — Jul 20, 2010, 07:23 AM

Quote from: smashingred at Jul 20, 2010, 12:05 PM

You may want to look at using the actual headers to send redirect rather than a conditional comment. This can be done with PHP or JS or both. I’d personally do it with php since you can make it a plugin to do before the page is loaded. The problem with such a plugin is that it must run everytime someone accesses your site regardless of browser.

You should be able to turn this into a plugin pretty easily: http://twodayslate.wordpress.com/2007/09/09/blockredirect-ie6-users/

That’s more what I was looking for

But I have a couple of questions. Would it be best to use the PHP code as a snippet at the top of my header chunck? Or make a plugin out of it? What would be the fastest/smartest way?

Thanks

Re: Send IE6 user to a specific resource

smashingred — Jul 20, 2010, 07:05 AM

You may want to look at using the actual headers to send redirect rather than a conditional comment. This can be done with PHP or JS or both. I’d personally do it with php since you can make it a plugin to do before the page is loaded. The problem with such a plugin is that it must run everytime someone accesses your site regardless of browser.

You should be able to turn this into a plugin pretty easily: http://twodayslate.wordpress.com/2007/09/09/blockredirect-ie6-users/

Re: Send IE6 user to a specific resource

leaase — Jul 20, 2010, 06:55 AM

Ok, I’ve tested the code, and it works, but the the original page is loaded and visible for a second before the redirect page appears. (maybe it’s my low bandwidth here). But I would like something more smooth. I would like to check for browser version before the page is served to the end user. That way the IE6 user won’t notice anything else loading than the splash page made especially for them.

So I’m still hunting

Re: Send IE6 user to a specific resource

StevenLangbroek — Jul 20, 2010, 06:40 AM

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Change the number 12 to the id of your resource .

Re: Send IE6 user to a specific resource

leaase — Jul 20, 2010, 06:22 AM

Yes, that’s one solution.

But I would still like to have it as a resource in my manager. So I can edit it like any other MODx page.

Any other solutions?

Re: Send IE6 user to a specific resource

goldsky — Jul 20, 2010, 04:55 AM

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Send IE6 user to a specific resource

leaase — Jul 20, 2010, 03:59 AM

The site I’m developing renders pretty good in most browsers but not in IE6 of course. So before I make the site useful to IE6 users (who are they, btw?), I would like to send them to a specific resource, which is a splash page just for IE6. I have understood that this can be done with a plugin, but I’m not sure which system event to use.

Is it any of these:
OnWebPageComplete
OnWebPageInit
OnWebPagePrerender
?

Thanks