This example is available in full on GitHub.
To run this example, you will need to create a resource key. The resource key is used as shorthand to store the particular set of properties you are interested in as well as any associated license keys that entitle you to increased request limits and/or paid-for properties.
You can create a resource key using the 51Degrees Configurator.
Required Composer Dependencies:
- 51degrees/fiftyone.devicedetection
Overview
The DeviceDetectionPipelineBuilder class is used to create a Pipeline instance from the configuration that is supplied. The fiftyone\pipeline\core\Utils module contains helpers which deal with automatically populating evidence from a web request.
$flowdata->evidence->setFromWebRequest()
The module can also handling setting response headers (e.g. Accept-CH for User-Agent Client Hints) and serving requests for client-side JavaScript and JSON resources.
Utils::setResponseHeader($flowdata);
The results of detection can be accessed by through the flowdata object once processed. This can then be used to interrogate the data.
$flowdata->process();
$device = $flowdata->device;
$hardwareVendor = $device->hardwarevendor;
Results can also be accessed in client-side code by using the fod object. See the JavaScriptBuilderElement for details on available settings such as changing the fod name.
window.onload = function () {
fod.complete(function(data) {
var hardwareName = data.device.hardwarename;
alert(hardwareName.join(", "));
}
}
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<?php
/* *********************************************************************
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* Copyright 2025 51 Degrees Mobile Experts Limited, Davidson House,
* Forbury Square, Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom RG1 3EU.
*
* This Original Work is licensed under the European Union Public Licence
* (EUPL) v.1.2 and is subject to its terms as set out below.
*
* If a copy of the EUPL was not distributed with this file, You can obtain
* one at https://opensource.org/licenses/EUPL-1.2.
*
* The 'Compatible Licences' set out in the Appendix to the EUPL (as may be
* amended by the European Commission) shall be deemed incompatible for
* the purposes of the Work and the provisions of the compatibility
* clause in Article 5 of the EUPL shall not apply.
*
* If using the Work as, or as part of, a network application, by
* including the attribution notice(s) required under Article 5 of the EUPL
* in the end user terms of the application under an appropriate heading,
* such notice(s) shall fulfill the requirements of that article.
* ********************************************************************* */
?>
<head>
<title>Web Integration Example</title>
<style>
<?php
require(__DIR__."/main.css");
?>
</style>
</head>
<div class="main">
<h2>Web Integration Example</h2>
<p>
This example demonstrates the use of the Pipeline API to perform device detection within a
simple PHP web project. In particular, it highlights:
<ol>
<li>
Automatic handling of the 'Accept-CH' header, which is used to request User-Agent
Client Hints from the browser
</li>
<li>
Client-side evidence collection in order to identify Apple device models and properties
such as screen size.
</li>
</ol>
</p>
<h3>Client Hints</h3>
<p>
When the first request is made, browsers that support client hints will typically send a subset
of client hints values along with the User-Agent header.
If device detection determines that the browser does support client hints then it will request
that additional client hints headers are sent with future requests by sending the Accept-CH
header with the response.
</p>
<p>
Note that if you have visited this page previously, the value of Accept-CH will have been
cached so all requested client hints headers will be sent on the first request. Using features
such as 'private browsing' or 'incognito mode' will allow you to see the true first request
experience as the previous Accept-CH value will not be used.
</p>
<noscript>
<div class="example-alert">
WARNING: JavaScript is disabled in your browser. This means that the callback discussed
further down this page will not fire and UACH headers will not be sent.
</div>
</noscript>
<div id="content">
<div id="response-headers">
<h2>Response headers:</h2>
<p class="smaller">The following response headers were set:</p>
<table>
<tr>
<th>Key</th>
<th>Value</th>
</tr>
<?php
foreach (headers_list() as $header)
{
$parts = explode(": ", $header);
$output("<tr class='lightyellow'>");
$output("<td><b>".$parts[0]."</b></td>");
$output("<td>".$parts[1]."</td>");
}
?>
</table>
</div>
<?php if (ExampleUtils::containsAcceptCh() == false) { ?>
<div class="example-alert">
WARNING: There is no Accept-CH header in the response. This may indicate that your
browser does not support User-Agent Client Hints. This is not necessarily a problem,
but if you are wanting to try out detection using User-Agent Client Hints, then make
sure that your browser
<a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/User-Agent_Client_Hints_API#browser_compatibility">supports them</a>.
</div>
<?php } ?>
<br />
<div id="evidence">
<h2>Evidence Used:</h2>
<p class="smaller">Evidence was <span class="lightgreen">used</span> / <span class="lightyellow">present</span> for detection</p>
<table>
<tr>
<th>Key</th>
<th>Value</th>
</tr>
<?php
foreach ($flowdata->evidence->getAll() as $key => $value)
{
if ($flowdata->pipeline->getElement("cloud")->getEvidenceKeyFilter()->filterEvidenceKey($key))
{
$output("<tr class='lightgreen'>");
}
else
{
$output("<tr class='lightyellow'>");
}
$output("<td><b>".$key."</b></td>");
$output("<td>".$value."</td>");
$output("</tr>");
}
?>
</table>
</div>
<br />
<h2>Device Data</h2>
<p class="smaller">
The following values are determined by sever-side device detection
on the first request:
</p>
<table>
<tr>
<th>Key</th>
<th>Value</th>
</tr>
<tr class="lightyellow"><td><b>Hardware Vendor:</b></td><td> <?php $output(ExampleUtils::getHumanReadable($flowdata->device, "hardwarevendor")); ?></td></tr>
<tr class="lightyellow"><td><b>Hardware Name:</b></td><td> <?php $output(ExampleUtils::getHumanReadable($flowdata->device, "hardwarename")); ?></td></tr>
<tr class="lightyellow"><td><b>Device Type:</b></td><td> <?php $output(ExampleUtils::getHumanReadable($flowdata->device, "devicetype")); ?></td></tr>
<tr class="lightyellow"><td><b>Platform Vendor:</b></td><td> <?php $output(ExampleUtils::getHumanReadable($flowdata->device, "platformvendor")); ?></td></tr>
<tr class="lightyellow"><td><b>Platform Name:</b></td><td> <?php $output(ExampleUtils::getHumanReadable($flowdata->device, "platformname")); ?></td></tr>
<tr class="lightyellow"><td><b>Platform Version:</b></td><td> <?php $output(ExampleUtils::getHumanReadable($flowdata->device, "platformversion")); ?></td></tr>
<tr class="lightyellow"><td><b>Browser Vendor:</b></td><td> <?php $output(ExampleUtils::getHumanReadable($flowdata->device, "browservendor")); ?></td></tr>
<tr class="lightyellow"><td><b>Browser Name:</b></td><td> <?php $output(ExampleUtils::getHumanReadable($flowdata->device, "browsername")); ?></td></tr>
<tr class="lightyellow"><td><b>Browser Version:</b></td><td> <?php $output(ExampleUtils::getHumanReadable($flowdata->device, "browserversion")); ?></td></tr>
<tr class="lightyellow"><td><b>Screen width (pixels):</b></td><td> <?php $output(ExampleUtils::getHumanReadable($flowdata->device, "screenpixelswidth")); ?></td></tr>
<tr class="lightyellow"><td><b>Screen height (pixels):</b></td><td> <?php $output(ExampleUtils::getHumanReadable($flowdata->device, "screenpixelsheight")); ?></td></tr>
</table>
<br />
<h3>Client-side Evidence and Apple Models</h3>
<p>
The information shown below is determined after a callback is made to the server with
additional evidence that is gathered by JavaScript running on the client-side.
The callback will also include any additional client hints headers that have been requested.
</p>
<p>
When an Apple device is used, the results from
the first request above will show all Apple models because the server cannot tell the
exact model of the device. In contrast, the results from the callback below will show
a smaller set of possible models.
This can be tested to some extent using most emulators, such as those in the
'developer tools' menu in Google Chrome. However, these are not the identical to real
devices so this can cause some unusual results. Using real devices will generally be more
successful.
</p>
<p>
If you want to work with Apple Model or other client-side information, such as screen
width/height on the server, then you will need to ensure that the 'enableCookies' setting
is set to 'true' as in the pipeline construction for this example.
This will cause the additional client-side evidence to be saved as cookies on the client.
When a future page is requested, these cookies will be included with the request and the
device detection API will include them when working out the details of the device.
Refreshing this page can be used to show this in action. Any values that are unique to the
client-side values below will appear in the evidence values used and server-side results
after the refresh.
</p>
</div>
<div>
<!--
This script is constructed by the fiftyone\pipeline\core package.
It adds a JavaScript include for 51Degrees.core.js.
The 51Degrees pipeline will dynamically generate JavaScript, which includes a
JSON representation of the contents of flow data.
i.e. The results from device detection.
In addition, this JavaScript will look for properties that have a flag set indicating that
they contain executable script snippets.
These snippets will be executed and the values they obtain will be sent back to the server
in order for it to perform the detection process again with the new information.
This callback will also include any User-Agent Client Hints headers that have been requested
with the 'Accept-CH' header. (assuming the browser is willing to send them)
When the server responds, the JSON representation of the results will be updated with the
new values and the 'complete' event will fire.
Below, we subscribe to this complete event and display the values from the updated JSON.
-->
<script>
<?php
$output($flowdata->javascriptbuilder->javascript);
?>
</script>
<script>
window.onload = function () {
// Subscribe to the 'complete' event.
fod.complete(function (data) {
// When the event fires, use the supplied data to populate a new table.
let fieldValues = [];
var hardwareName = typeof data.device.hardwarename == "undefined" ?
"Unknown" : data.device.hardwarename.join(", ")
fieldValues.push(["Hardware Name: ", hardwareName]);
fieldValues.push(["Platform: ",
data.device.platformname + " " + data.device.platformversion]);
fieldValues.push(["Browser: ",
data.device.browsername + " " + data.device.browserversion]);
fieldValues.push(["Screen width (pixels): ", data.device.screenpixelswidth]);
fieldValues.push(["Screen height (pixels): ", data.device.screenpixelsheight]);
displayValues(fieldValues);
});
}
// Helper function to add a table that displays the supplied values.
function displayValues(fieldValues) {
var table = document.createElement("table");
var tr = document.createElement("tr");
addToRow(tr, "th", "Key", false);
addToRow(tr, "th", "Value", false);
table.appendChild(tr);
fieldValues.forEach(function (entry) {
var tr = document.createElement("tr");
tr.classList.add("lightyellow");
addToRow(tr, "td", entry[0], true);
addToRow(tr, "td", entry[1], false);
table.appendChild(tr);
});
var element = document.getElementById("content");
element.appendChild(table);
}
// Helper function to add an entry to a table row.
function addToRow(row, elementName, text, strong) {
var entry = document.createElement(elementName);
var textNode = document.createTextNode(text);
if (strong === true) {
var strongNode = document.createElement("strong");
strongNode.appendChild(textNode);
textNode = strongNode;
}
entry.appendChild(textNode);
row.appendChild(entry);
}
</script>
Class
<?php
/* *********************************************************************
* This Original Work is copyright of 51 Degrees Mobile Experts Limited.
* Copyright 2025 51 Degrees Mobile Experts Limited, Davidson House,
* Forbury Square, Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom RG1 3EU.
*
* This Original Work is licensed under the European Union Public Licence
* (EUPL) v.1.2 and is subject to its terms as set out below.
*
* If a copy of the EUPL was not distributed with this file, You can obtain
* one at https://opensource.org/licenses/EUPL-1.2.
*
* The 'Compatible Licences' set out in the Appendix to the EUPL (as may be
* amended by the European Commission) shall be deemed incompatible for
* the purposes of the Work and the provisions of the compatibility
* clause in Article 5 of the EUPL shall not apply.
*
* If using the Work as, or as part of, a network application, by
* including the attribution notice(s) required under Article 5 of the EUPL
* in the end user terms of the application under an appropriate heading,
* such notice(s) shall fulfill the requirements of that article.
* ********************************************************************* */
require_once(__DIR__ . '/../../vendor/autoload.php');
use fiftyone\pipeline\core\Logger;
function main()
{
// Configure a logger to output to the console
$logger = new Logger("info");
// Get the resource key from the environment variable
$resourceKey = ExampleUtils::getResourceKeyFromEnv();
// Otherwise, get the resource key from the query parameter
if (empty($resourceKey)) {
$resourceKey = ExampleUtils::getResourceKeyFromQueryParameter();
}
if (empty($resourceKey)) {
$message = "No resource key specified in CLI args or environment variable '" .
ExampleUtils::RESOURCE_KEY_ENV_VAR . "'." . PHP_EOL .
"The 51Degrees cloud service is accessed using a 'ResourceKey'. " .
"For more detail see " .
"http://51degrees.com/documentation/4.3/_info__resource_keys.html. " .
"A resource key with the properties required by this " .
"example can be created for free at " .
"https://configure.51degrees.com/g3gMZdPY. " .
"Once complete, populate the environment variable " .
"mentioned at the start of this message with the key.";
ExampleUtils::logErrorAndExit($logger, $message);
}
(new GettingStartedWeb())->run($resourceKey, $logger, function($message) { echo $message; });
}
main();