how to identify touch enabled mobile devices

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I want to have a mobile website view specifically for touch enabled mobile phones. I already have a mobile website for simple mobiles having user agent 'mobile' and for desktops or big screens as 'desk'. I dont want a version touch.*.com rather i want a technique which redirects users automatically to the the optimized website for the device like many mobile sites do for eg facebook.

How should i go for it?

No other answer have been posted and I clearly put you on a solution path providing a link to an implemented php service that allow you to detect which device is making a request from the php. — elmuchacho, Mar 08 '12 at 16:13

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:07

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Did a bit of research and this is what I found http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WURFL

The PHP implementation http://wurfl.sourceforge.net/nphp/

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Same question from an other post "valid answer" What's the best way to detect a 'touch screen' device using JavaScript?

The info can be found on the following "require reading"

Optimize website for touch devices

And a bit more details on how moderniz detect it

http://modernizr.github.com/Modernizr/touch.html

Hope that help

edited May 23 '17 at 12:07

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answered Mar 06 '12 at 11:25

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I want to identify it in PHP! – hkasera Mar 06 '12 at 11:37
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Maybe you should have define this before? Please improve your question and give the langugae context you want the issue to be resolved in. – elmuchacho Mar 06 '12 at 11:41

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