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

[kyle1745]

Sent you a PM with my site.

Originally Posted by dartho

Kyle - could you let meknow your sites address and I'll have a look

inbrissy - I wouldn't iumagine it would be too difficult, there are probably other addon's which can stop speficied users/groups from using specific styles.

[dethfire]

is it confirmed this detects all mobile devices?

[dartho]

no, it doesn;t detect all mobile devices

[dethfire]

Originally Posted by dartho

no, it doesn;t detect all mobile devices

is there a list that could be added so it does?

[dartho]

no, as the list is variable and rather large. Suffice to say it detects many, if not most, and there is a facility for the site admin to manually add detection of any unsupported devices he or she may discover

[ekantnl]

Hello Dartho,

your mod is working like a charme on the mobile devices I have seen till now. Thank you for your work!

I have a question / feature request. I dont know if it is possible or not to code it.

Some forums and subforums are redirected (Forum Link) to vbulletin scripts like vbclassified, reviewpost etc. These scripts do not look good on a mobile device.

So.. Is it possible to exclude certain forums to show up when viewing with a mobile device?

Eric

[dartho]

You just want to hide the forums from forumhome, or you don;t even want posts to show which are in these forums (say in "New Posts")?

You could possibly hide forums with a few extra conditionals in your templates - but to hide threads/posts from searches etc also is a bit more involved.

It may be easier to disable the add-ons rather than hide them so that mobile users will see them as normal forums and still get the content without the bells and whistles...

[SIINSI]

For some reason, some of my users are getting the "Posted via Mobile Device" under there posts even when posting from a PC. Any ideas why?

I have 3 styles. A light style a dark style and your mobile style.

Thanks,
Miguel

[dartho]

That won't be related to this - what addon are you using to append that message?

[robgtheengineer]

Not working on Zavine.com. Installed this plugin with the mobile theme.