CODEWITHSUNDEEP
magentobrowser-detection
Marek123
Marek123

Reputation: 1211

Content by Browser

Is it somehow possible in Magento to display content (on the home page) based on which browser the customer is using?

We got a fancy home page with css3 and js using. Works fine in all browsers (checked) but it won't work on the last browser, our client was mentioning, the Internet Explorer 8.

Unfortunately it's not possible for us to get the issues fixed by loading an ie.css file.

Our thought was, to detect the browser of the visiting customer and to display him an other home page or cms block.

Is this possible? Conditional Comments or in a phtml file?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1301

Answers (3)

Bikram Shrestha
Bikram Shrestha

Reputation: 2070

You can check this url to detect the browser , the condition can be placed in the required .phtml file . This URL could help How can I detect the browser with PHP or JavaScript?

Upvotes: 0

Tim Bezhashvyly
Tim Bezhashvyly

Reputation: 9100

The most elegant solution I can imagine for you is to create another theme inside of your package specially for those browsers. So if by default you have app/design/frontend/your_package/default structure you have to create something like app/design/frontend/your_package/special_theme which will inherit the default theme of your package. Then in Admin\General\Design you can add an exception like on a screenshot below:

enter image description here

With the only exception that instead of iPhone|iPod|Blackberry.. you put matching pattern(s) of your browser's agent string and instead of iphone your special_theme name.

Screenshot is taken from magebase.com

Upvotes: 2

snez
snez

Reputation: 2480

The home page CMS entry hits 1column.phtml, 2columns-left.phtml etc depending on its configuration. These files are in your theme's directory. You have full control over what to display in those files, i.e.

<?php if( Mage::getSingleton('cms/page')->getIdentifier() == 'home' && preg_match('/(?i)msie 8/',$_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'])): ?> 
Your content goes here. 
<?php else: ?>
Display normal content
<?php endif; ?>

Upvotes: 1

Related Questions