Screen Size

[kapstok]

Can you detect the screen size (800600, 1024768, ...) with PHP (or another server side technology). Or is this only possible with JavaScript ?

[non_zero]

Sorry. Server-side languages can't get information like that unless the user volunteers it.

[jamie_webstart]

As Jared says, it isn't directly possible. The trick I use is to have a piece of javascript on my index.php3 that detects the size and then redirects to main.php3?width=1024&height=768

<script>
  top.location = "target.php3?width="+screen.width+"&height="+screen.height;
</script>

I leave a page with hard links on in case people have javascript turned off, and I also use the php page to session register the sizes and redirect to itself without the query string do that users don't see what's going on, but you don't need to do that to get it working.

HTH

[aboyd]

Jared and Jamie are 99% correct. However, I would note that at least version 3 or 4 of Microsoft's Internet Explorer would send the screen size as a header.

I suspect that was abandoned and no longer works. But just so you know, there was at one point a way for server-side languages to get that data.

Nowadays, you should use Jamie's code.