how do I parse a mobile site with php file_get_content - php

Question

Sorry if this is a duplicate question.
My target site redirects me to desktop site if the browser is not a mobile. I want to parse the mobile version of the site (http://mobile.mysite.com). I can't use Curl as my server is disabled for that.
what would be the useragent for mobile if it is possible at all ??!!

Answer 1

If you need to send custom headers like User-Agent with your file_get_contents request, the PHP answer to that are stream contexts:
$opts = array(
'http' => array(
'method' => "GET",
'header' => "Accept-language: en\r\n" .
"Cookie: foo=bar\r\n" .
"User-Agent: Foo Bar Baz\r\n"
)
);
$context = stream_context_create($opts);
file_get_contents($url, false, $context);
See stream_context_create and file_get_contents.

Answer 2

Pick a mobile User-Agent string and use it. They can easily be found from Google.
Here is some sample code that illustrates how to use them with file_get_contents():
<?php
// The first one I found on Google
$uaStr = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 2.2; en-us; Nexus One Build/FRF91)';
// Create a stream context
// http://www.php.net/manual/en/context.http.php
$context = stream_context_create(array(
'http'=>array(
'user_agent' => $uaStr
)
));
// The URL
$url = "http://www.example.com/";
// Make the request
$result = file_get_contents($url, FALSE, $context);

Answer 3

try look this php libs:
PHP HttpClient
And if you want get mobile site, set the user agent to specific mobile browser
$userAgent = "NokiaC5-00/061.005 (SymbianOS/9.3; U; Series60/3.2 Mozilla/5.0; Profile/MIDP-2.1 Configuration/CLDC-1.1) AppleWebKit/525 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Safari/525 3gpp-gba";
setUserAgent($userAgent);

Answer 4

To change your user agent within php without curl you may try this:
<?php
ini_set('user_agent', 'Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_0 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/532.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.5 Mobile/8A293 Safari/6531.22.7');
$data = file_get_contents("http://www.mobile.example.com");
?>
PS: Got user agent of the iphone 4 from here !