Url Redirection Based on Operating System?

**jutt29** · 12-10-2011, 12:42 PM

Can Some please give me the script to redirect my MAC and Windows user to different Urls?
Thanks

**Autumn** · 12-11-2011, 08:26 AM

Code:

<?php

$windows_url = 'http://www.microsoft.com/';
$mac_url     = 'http://www.apple.com/';
$other_url   = 'http://www.lemonparty.org/';

$user_agent = $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'];

if(preg_match('/microsoft|window/i', $user_agent)) {
	header("Location: $windows_url", true, 301);
} elseif(preg_match('/mac|os x/i', $user_agent)) {
	header("Location: $mac_url", true, 301);
} else {
	header("Location: $other_url", true, 301);
}

?>

Pretty self explanatory really. Fill in your urls up the top and include it before the opening <head> tag on your page.

**paulcarter97** · 12-17-2011, 02:34 PM

Nice script, quick question. Why would you want this kind of redirrect ?

**Autumn** · 12-17-2011, 05:34 PM

Originally Posted by paulcarter97

Nice script, quick question. Why would you want this kind of redirrect ?

Probably so you can show ads that are targeted to each operating system, eg. show Windows users some anti-virus shit and Mac users some other crapware like MacKeeper. You wouldn't necessarily have to redirect - you could just identify the user agent as belonging to a particular OS and then just show an ad for that platform in your normal page.