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Automatic PHP Updates With Cron

by Tom Holmes on Tuesday, April 09, 2013 11:00 AM

51Degrees.mobi Detector for PHP ensures that the Premium Data file is kept up to date by offering an update feature that will download and apply any new data released by 51Degrees.mobi. Unfortunately, a vanilla PHP install will only respond to web requests, so cannot be made to update by itself regularly.

This guide outlines how to create a Cron job to automatically update your Premium Data file in a PHP environment.

PHP
Cron

51Degrees.mobi and MVC4

by Tom Holmes on Friday, September 23, 2011 3:21 AM
Following the showcase of MVC4 at the Build conference this guide will show you how to setup an MVC4 web application to use different Views based on the capabilities of the device accessing the site. This allows you to give all users a perfect experience on smart phones, feature phones, tablets and desktop web sites.
Mobile
Microsoft
MVC4

Create Your Own .NET Mobile Detection Cloud Service to use with PHP

by Tom Holmes on Friday, August 19, 2011 1:10 PM
Need effective device detection but aren't using .NET? Then worry not, this guide will show you how to go about making your own detection cloud service and then how to access it with PHP.

51Degrees.mobi Foundation and Windows Azure

by Tom Holmes on Tuesday, August 09, 2011 3:32 PM
The blog is a brief guide on how to use 51Degrees.mobi Foundation with the Windows Azure Cloud Service. There have been changes to accommodate the cloud and this will show you what needs doing to detect mobile browsers on your bit of cloud.

Using 51Degrees.mobi within Sharepoint

by Tom Holmes on Thursday, July 28, 2011 4:27 PM
This blog is a step by step guide on how to to configure Sharepoint 2010 so that it can use 51Degrees.mobi Framework components.

51Degrees.mobi Mobile Detection Outside of IIS

by Tom Holmes on Thursday, July 21, 2011 11:51 AM

51Degrees.mobi has a proven record of fast, reliable detection on ASP.NET website but it has always been restricted to environments within IIS. The 1.2 release has now changed this and detection can now be used offline outside of IIS from any .NET code. To show how, I have made two example projects showing local based detection; a lightweight command line implementation, and a slightly more advanced GUI driven based version.