serbanghita/Mobile-Detect

Mobile_Detect is a lightweight PHP class for detecting mobile devices (including tablets). It uses the User-Agent string combined with specific HTTP headers to detect the mobile environment. observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/serbanghita/Mobile-Detect · homepage · PHP · MIT (permissive) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

93/100

Activity 97
Release rhythm 85
Longevity 100

How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

gap_med: 15.0
age_days: 5115
days_rel: 101
days_push: 22
n_releases_24m: 3

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

10680 stars · 2608 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

MobileDetect is a lightweight PHP library that detects mobile devices, including distinguishing phones from tablets, using User-Agent strings and HTTP headers with regex matching. It supports server-side responsive web design strategies and is maintained across multiple PHP version lines.

Use cases

detect mobile devices in php
serve different content to phones and tablets
redirect mobile users to a mobile site
server-side responsive web design detection
identify tablet vs phone from user agent
detect mobile browser in php app

When to choose

you need lightweight server-side device detection in PHP
you must distinguish phones from tablets server-side
you want a mature, widely used detection library with MIT license

When to avoid

you need client-side feature detection or CSS media queries
you need full browser or OS capability profiling
your project runs on PHP below 8.2 and you need the latest features

Facets

library · maturity active

http-server middleware developer-tools web-development mobile-development developer-tools php user-agent-detection device-detection responsive-web-design mobile-redirects regex-based web-server

3 sources

readme: https://github.com/serbanghita/Mobile-Detect · fetched 2026-08-28 · 7bf0f3c19618
homepage: http://mobiledetect.net · fetched 2026-08-29 · 1fe3fe6a917c
site_page: https://docs.mobiledetect.net/ · fetched 2026-08-29 · b9db27ad32dc

Member repositories

Repository	Role	Health v2
serbanghita/Mobile-Detect	main	93

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