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

[dartho]

Is this with all members or a single member?

[Nadeemjp]

will use this for later.
nice hack though

[darkdan]

Fixed.

Thanks.

[dartho]

only if configured to do so!

[Chevy II]

Thanks, installed and works great!

I have a question, or request though. Is it possible to have any users that are connect via a wireless device to not use their normal signature block, and they would use something along the lines of the mandatory statement that must be used on all email sent via blackberrys or Iphones, etc.

Posted from my Blackberry wireless handheld device.

Would this be possible to set in the autodetect add-on?

[fta2k]

Originally Posted by Chevy II

Thanks, installed and works great!

I have a question, or request though. Is it possible to have any users that are connect via a wireless device to not use their normal signature block, and they would use something along the lines of the mandatory statement that must be used on all email sent via blackberrys or Iphones, etc.

Posted from my Blackberry wireless handheld device.

Would this be possible to set in the autodetect add-on?

If it's your own site why not just make a second user such as Chevy II Mobile with all the same permissions and make your own signature block for that id.




By the way, installed and working great along with the hide from chooser addon.

Thanks.

[Goomzee]

thankx

[jbeam]

I have been running this mod for several months now and I don't think I can live without it. I use my phone (MotoQ) keep up to date and check on the forum when I am away from the computer and I find it works great.

However, I have a couple folks with the Blackberry Curve that are not getting their PM's in a timely manor. I have asked and it doesn't seem like anyone but Curve users have this problem.

I thought it was maybe a cache issue, so I had them clear their cache on the phones and they still could not see PM's that they know are in their inbox. After a few days, the older PM's show up, but none of the newer ones.

All other functionality seems to be good.

I would be shocked if it's an issue with this mod, but I was wondering if anyone else has had this problem.

[Nadeemjp]

does this have 3.8 compatibility?

[dartho]

@jbeam - I doubt it would be related to this addon. Certainly sounds like a caching issue to me. Do they get new PM notification but no PM's showing, or not even notified?

@Nadeemjp - I upgraded my site to 3.8 and this still appears to work OK for me