How to redirect the user to a mobile app or a website on click of a hyperlink sent in an email? Should it need to be handled on server-side using PHP?

Question

I\'ve a website which is already developed using PHPFox and it\'s working fine. Now, iOS development team has created a mobile app in iOS for the same funct

Answer 1

Using javascript, you can have a landing page to tunnel the users:

You can redirect the user to an app scheme using the following:

 document.location="myApp://myUrl";

If the browser does not find the uri scheme, you can use a setTimeout to redirect the user to your webpage

setTimeout(function() {
   document.location="/path/inside/website.html";
}, 100);

Another good solution would be to test the existence of the url schema using an iframe on a small test file, and redirect the current page if the iframe can be loaded