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

[caliman]

Is there anyway to force users to a skin THEN allow then the option to switch back to the default skin?
If not, it would be a great feature.

[ArnyVee]

That's one of the add-ons, is it not?

I just installed this today and am testing it out. The customizable add-on helps with that Caliman.

[caliman]

Originally Posted by ArnyVee

That's one of the add-ons, is it not?

I just installed this today and am testing it out. The customizable add-on helps with that Caliman.

Which one?

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).

[ArnyVee]

This is the one I used Caliman...

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=182692

[caliman]

Thanks Arny but that won't do what I want... I have it too...

Add a link to the default style?
Select whether to add a link in navbar or footer to get back to the default style,
This will not work in conjunction with add-ons that force the user to a style - select NO LINK if you are using such an add-on

[dartho]

See here https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...19#post1658919 for a possible way to do this....

[24hourForum.com]

thank you installed

[caliman]

Originally Posted by dartho

See here https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...19#post1658919 for a possible way to do this....

Thank you. I may go this route. Although I have VBSEO of course. :erm:

[dartho]

VBSEO *may* not cause issues - or it may... I guess you'll soon tell us :-) I don;t use it, but they seem to be a helpful bunch, so if you do have issues they may be able to come up with a work around/fix...

[WoodiE]

I'm having a problem with this mod that when a member views the site using his or her cell phone then later goes and views the site on their PC via IE or Firefox that the mobile style is still selected for them.

What needs to be changed to allow them to be set to the correct style when viewing the forum on a PC?