Forum Display Enhancements - Mobile Phone / iPhone / PDA Detection and Style Assignment

This add-on will detect most mobile phones, iPhones, PDAs and other mobile browsing devices and automatically for the user to a specific vBulletin style.

What can it do?
Detects most mobile phones and force the user to a specific style (users will not be able to select other styles from a mobile device with this add-on installed). If you have multiple styles installed which are optimized for small screen mobile devices, iPhones, WIndows Mobile devices you can assign a specific style to each of these groups.

Whilst designed with mobile device users in mind, you could also assign styles to self defined browsers. For example you can assign an alternative style to Internet Explorer users whilst Firefox users get the default style. You could also assign an alternative style to Google or Yahoo spiders.

Instructions:
0. Install styles which you wish to assign to Mobile/PDA/iPhone users - some links will appear at the bottom of this post
1. Download the product file
2. Install via Product Manager
3. Configure options via vBulletin Options, Mobile Device Detection (should appear at end)
4. Start browsing from your mobile device!
5. Click "Mark as Installed"

If upgrading from a previous 3.5 or 3.6 version, you will need to uninstall that and the install this one.

To uninstall simply uninstall the product - there are no database changes or additional files.

Styles released on vBulletin which you can use:
Dartho's Mobile, Cell, Phone, PDA, iPhone Style for vBulletin 3.7 (<-- yep, that's mine)
ElForro's iPhone / iPod Touch Optimized Style
Zachery's vB Lite Style
vBMechanics Mobile Alabama Style

Due to the stripped down nature of these mobile styles, you will find that most for 3.5 and 3.6 will work quite happily on 3.5, 3.6 & 3.7 although additional features introduced in vBulletin in recent years such as Social Groups, Blogs and Photo Galleries will not show well on a small screen. All should display your actual forums well.

3.6 Version can be found here

Marked as Beta until I get some feedback, and 3.7 goes Gold

Release Information
1.0.0 Initial release for 3.7 ported over from 3.6.8 version

[Banana]

Originally Posted by dartho

'Mobile Device Detection' detects ALL mobile devices. Enabling PDA / iPhone / Custom device detection then overrides the style set initially by the Mobile detection with the one you specify.

Can I be clear.

If the above option is "Yes" then does this override my "No" option "Enable iPhone / iPod Device Detection?" ?

Thanks

[dartho]

An iPhone/iPod is a mobile device and falls into that generic category. You can then override this default and select an alternative style for for iPhones/iPods. If you wish to have your default style display on these devices you need to configure it as such

[Banana]

What I wish to do is:force the PDA style for all mobile devices EXCEPT iPhone/iPod users who I want to be able to choose their own style.

How do I achieve this please.

[dartho]

Add 'iPhone' to "Useragent Exceptions". Devices matching user agents strings listed here will not be detected as a mobile device.

[Akakios1]

Dartho,

Just wanted to say you're my hero! I've installed your mobile products and they work perfectly! I had to mess around with it but I got it going and going good! It was all my end.. the messing around!

Thanks for doing what you do!

[Jhonnyf]

excelente... thank you

[dartho]

Glad it's working for you!

[gpc10347]

Nice mod! Installed and aside from a small issue with CMPS, it went smooth as silk...

Future feature request: Perhaps a Bypass CMPS option so the mobile user lands inside the forums with having to see whatever garbage I put out front?

And if it's already in there, pretend that it's easy to miss so I don't develop a complex...

Thanks!!

[dartho]

You'll need to edit your adv_portal temaplte in this skin - See here for a sample: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...13#post1566413

[gpc10347]

Originally Posted by dartho

You'll need to edit your adv_portal temaplte in this skin - See here for a sample: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...13#post1566413

Perfect solution.

I modified my set up to a stripped version that I still don't like so a meta refresh/redirect page was what I was out looking for but your 'cover' page is fine... Might use both..

Mod of the month for my money.. (or lack of my money...)

Thanks!