[EricaJoy]

Originally Posted by dartho

This is not my work - I asked sometime back and someone posted this. It works under 3.5.4 for me from my PDA.

To make your mobile style automagically selected when a mobile device is detected edit your global.php, search for :

// #############################################################################
// if user can control panel, allow selection of any style (for testing purposes)
// otherwise only allow styles that are user-selectable

and add the following immediately above it:

// BROWSER DETECT
  
  $browsers = array(
      "Windows CE",
      "WebTV",
      "AvantGo",
      "Blazer",
      "PalmOS",
      "lynx",
      "Go.Web",
      "Elaine",
      "ProxiNet",
      "ChaiFarer",
      "Digital Paths",
      "UP.Browser",
      "Mazingo",
      "Mobile",
      "T68",
      "Syncalot",
      "NetFront",
      "Danger",
      "Symbian",
      "Nokia",
      "Xiino",
      "AU-MIC",
      "EPOC",
      "BlackBerry",
      "Wireless",
      "Handheld"
      );
  
  if(preg_match('/('.implode('|', $browsers).')/i', $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'], $match))
  {
      $mobile=1;
  }
  else if (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_UA_OS']))
  {
      if (strstr($_SERVER['HTTP_UA_OS'],"POCKET PC") !== false)
      {
          $mobile=1;
      }
  }
  else
  {
      $mobile=0;
  }
  
  if ($mobile==1)
  {
      //echo "You are on a mobile device!";
      $styleid='9';
  }  
// END BROWSER DETECT

Change the 3rd last line " $styleid='9'; " to the style number of your mobile/pda Style. You can add user agent strings of other browsers to the list.

**NOTE - YOU CAN NOT OVERRIDE THIS, IF YOU ARE ON A MOBILE DEVICE THIS WILL BE THE ONLY STYLE YOU CAN USE

ON another note, if you need to get to otherwise unavailable screens when in your mobile style - just manually enter in the URL you want to go to...

Instead of forcing the styleid, would it be possible to display a different page to a mobile browser? Something like "you have a mobile browser! would you like to see a mobile formatted version or a regular formatted version of the site?" then give them the option to choose which version to use.