Front Page Designation based on theme

Hi thegenericgeek,

I haven't tried this, but, you could plop the following in your front_page settings. I've included comments so you can follow what's going on.

OPTION #1
------------
redirect users based on the domain name.

<?php

$newfront = 'mobile-home'; // specify where you want people coming from $checkdomain
$regularfront = 'regular-home'; // specify where you want people coming not from $checkdomain
$checkdomain = www.example.mobi; // the domain name you want to redirect visitors coming from


$comingfrom = $_SERVER["HTTP_REFERER"]; // checks to see where the visitor is coming from
if (stristr($comingfrom, $checkdomain)) 
      {
        // redirect users coming from $checkdomain to $newfront
        drupal_goto($path = $newfront, $query = NULL, $fragment = NULL);    
      }
  else { 
         // redirect regular users to $regularfront
         drupal_goto($path = $regularfront, $query = NULL, $fragment = NULL); 
        }   
?>

OPTION #2
----------
Redirect users based on browser type. In other words, it checks for the browser agent and does a cross check against a list of mobile browser types.

$newfront = 'mobile-home'; // specify where you want people coming from $checkdomain
$regularfront = 'regular-home'; // specify where you want people coming not from $checkdomain

$mobile_browser = '0';
  if(preg_match('/ (up.browser|up.link|mmp|symbian|smartphone|midp|wap|phone|vodafone|o2|pocket|mobile|pda|psp)/i',strtolower($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']))){
       $mobile_browser++;
       }
    if(((strpos(strtolower($_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT']),'text/vnd.wap.wml')>0) or (strpos(strtolower($_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT']),'application/vnd.wap.xhtml+xml')>0)) or ((isset($_SERVER['HTTP_X_WAP_PROFILE']) or isset($_SERVER['HTTP_PROFILE'])))){
      $mobile_browser++;
      }
      $mobile_ua = strtolower(substr($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'],0,4));
      $mobile_agents = array('acs-','alav','alca','amoi','audi','aste','avan','benq','bird','blac','blaz','brew','cell','cldc','cmd-','dang','doco','eric','hipt','inno','ipaq','java','jigs','kddi','keji','leno','lg-c','lg-d','lg-g','lge-','maui','maxo','midp','mits','mmef','mobi','mot-','moto','mwbp','nec-','newt','noki','oper','opwv','palm','pana','pant','pdxg','phil','play','pluc','port','prox','qtek','qwap','sage','sams','sany','sch-','sec-','send','seri','sgh-','shar','sie-','siem','smal','smar','sony','sph-','symb','t-mo','teli','tim-','tosh','tsm-','upg1','upsi','vk-v','voda','wap-','wapa','wapi','wapp','wapr','webc','winw','winw','xda','xda-');
      if(in_array($mobile_ua,$mobile_agents)){
      $mobile_browser++;
      }
      if($mobile_browser>0){
         // redirect users browsing using a mobile phone to $newfront
        drupal_goto($path = $newfront, $query = NULL, $fragment = NULL);    

        }
    else { 
         // redirect users not using a mobile phone to $regularfront
         drupal_goto($path = $regularfront, $query = NULL, $fragment = NULL); 
     }   

As I say, I haven't tested the above...I think I would probably opt for OPTION 2 which detects whether the user is browsing using a mobile phone.

Can you report back up here if that works for you or if you run into problems (the second snippet might need to be tweaked for PHP 5)?

I think the front_page.module probably should have a mobile phone detect option soon...more and more websites are being designed now for mobile browsing and sometimes, like in your case, it's not enough to simple theme everything for mobile browsers....a seperate front page is required.

Dub

sorry..there's a typo in my comments for the section snippet..it should read

<?php 
$newfront = 'mobile-home'; // specify where users using mobile phones are redirected
$regularfront = 'regular-home'; // specify where users not using mobile phones are redirected
?>

Dub

i tried to do it but failed
i copied the following code

$newfront = 'mobile_blogging'; // specify where you want people coming from $checkdomain
$regularfront = 'front'; // specify where you want people coming not from $checkdomain

$checkdomain = www.ibloggers.mobi; // the domain name you want to redirect visitors coming from

$comingfrom = $_SERVER["HTTP_REFERER"]; // checks to see where the visitor is coming from
if (stristr($comingfrom, $checkdomain))
{
// redirect users coming from $checkdomain to $newfront
drupal_goto($path = $newfront, $query = NULL, $fragment = NULL);
}
else {
// redirect regular users to $regularfront
drupal_goto($path = $regularfront, $query = NULL, $fragment = NULL);
}

$mobile_browser = '0';
if(preg_match('/ (up.browser|up.link|mmp|symbian|smartphone|midp|wap|phone|vodafone|o2|pocket|mobile|pda|psp)/i',strtolower($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']))){
$mobile_browser++;
}
if(((strpos(strtolower($_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT']),'text/vnd.wap.wml')>0) or (strpos(strtolower($_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT']),'application/vnd.wap.xhtml+xml')>0)) or ((isset($_SERVER['HTTP_X_WAP_PROFILE']) or isset($_SERVER['HTTP_PROFILE'])))){
$mobile_browser++;
}
$mobile_ua = strtolower(substr($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'],0,4));
$mobile_agents = array('acs-','alav','alca','amoi','audi','aste','avan','benq','bird','blac','blaz','brew','cell','cldc','cmd-','dang','doco','eric','hipt','inno','ipaq','java','jigs','kddi','keji','leno','lg-c','lg-d','lg-g','lge-','maui','maxo','midp','mits','mmef','mobi','mot-','moto','mwbp','nec-','newt','noki','oper','opwv','palm','pana','pant','pdxg','phil','play','pluc','port','prox','qtek','qwap','sage','sams','sany','sch-','sec-','send','seri','sgh-','shar','sie-','siem','smal','smar','sony','sph-','symb','t-mo','teli','tim-','tosh','tsm-','upg1','upsi','vk-v','voda','wap-','wapa','wapi','wapp','wapr','webc','winw','winw','xda','xda-');
if(in_array($mobile_ua,$mobile_agents)){
$mobile_browser++;
}
if($mobile_browser>0){
// redirect users browsing using a mobile phone to $newfront
drupal_goto($path = $newfront, $query = NULL, $fragment = NULL);

}
else {
// redirect users not using a mobile phone to $regularfront
drupal_goto($path = $regularfront, $query = NULL, $fragment = NULL);
}

and did paste it in the front_page module after the settings area

can anyone help

Open this back up if you're still stuck.