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

[CR_TurboGuy]

Originally Posted by ShackMaster

Josh...

I just found a bug with the UserCP Mobile Style Detection. If the "Use Standard Style" is selected, which it is by default, the only the default style of the forum can be used for members.

For example: I have several styles that users can select from. The default is a fluid 100% style. An option is the fixed 1024px wide style. If I have "Use Standard Style" selected in the UserCP for the Mobile Style Detection, then changing the style from 100% fluid to any of the other fixed styles does not work. However, if I change the Mobile Style Detection to "Use Mobile Style", the other styles will work.

Reckon how we can fix this? Or maybe have it default to "Use Mobile Style" for all members, unless specifically selected.

Thanks!

Ok, I think if I'm understanding the correctly, you are saying that it defaults to using the standard style, and you want it to default to using the mobile style, correct? If so, then change the order of the options for the profile field, so that 'Use Mobile Version' is the first option.

As to being able to choose other styles when the 'Use Standard Style' is set, I think that is because my mod uses the styleid set in the 'Mobile Device Detection' settings for the 'custom' device type. You might try changing the

if($vbulletin->userinfo['field8'] == 'Use Standard Version')
    {
          $custom1=1;
    }

to

if($vbulletin->userinfo['field8'] == 'Use Standard Version')
    {
          $except_browser=1;
    }

then I would think that it would use whatever style is the default for the board.

Let me know if I'm way off base on my assumptions & I'll try to figure out how to get things working. Just FYI thought, if you couldn't tell by my forum, I run a haunted house & this time of year I'm pretty busy, so it may take a little to get back to you.


--JOsh

Edit - I'm attaching the XML file with the changes that I mentioned above.

[Joey Link]

Any chance in a future version you could give the user the option of viewing the mobile style or the full version? That would be ideal for me, as many iphone users view the full version but some prefer the mobile. It'd be nice to alert all mobile users that there is a mobile option.

[dartho]

Hi Joey - have a look at the 3 posts preceding yours which have 3 ways of doing this.

[Kottonmouth801]

Hello Dartho,

I was "chatting" with you in the mobile skin forum.

I am still having an issue with 3.8.2 conflicting with this mod when you try to register from a mobile device.

Although I.... Am not complaining because I can read that this was designed for 3.7.

But......

I love this mod and have been using it on 3.8.2 for quite sometime and have been extremly pleased.

I recently added a Registration button to the the mobile skin and this is when I found the bugg.

The bugg is definitly with this modification not the skin.

Will not let you register from a mobile device.

I also tried to turn captcha off but this did not help either...?

Any Ideas???

Thanks...

[dartho]

Sorry - your problem lies elsewhere. My test site is currently 3.8.2 and this mod coupled with the mobile style have no (no visual) issues with registering a new user.

[Kottonmouth801]

Hello dartho,

May I ask which skin you are using?

Because I just tested it on a test board (3.8.2) and it doesn't work there either.

But... When I turn this modification off it works just fine to register from a mobile device..

Also.....

I noticed that your mobile skins do not have a registration option on them.

Do you have any suggestions?

[dartho]

I'm using my mobile style (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=174375)

I didn't add a register button/link as I never intended for people to register via it. However on my 3.8.2 test site which has ONLY my mods installed, it has no issues (also only uses Q&A human verification)

Sorry - no other suggestions other than those already made.

[Kottonmouth801]

I have tracked conflict down.

I beleive it is conflicting with this mod.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=183917

Really wanted to continue using this mod instead of creating .m site

Thanks for your time.

:up:

[dartho]

Goodo - do you have the mobile add-on installed? (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=182692)

if so, adding the following code to the disable addons section should disable the 'stop registration bots' addon in when in the mobile style

//disable "Stop the Registration Bots"
$vbulletin->options[StopBotReg_enable]=0;

[Kottonmouth801]

:up:

Awesome....!!!!!!!

I turned my data program off this month on my phone to try to save a few dollars.

So.. when my wife gets home I will test code with her phone.

I will keep you posted on the results.

Also.... do you think many robots will get around on the mobile skin?

I am stll "scratching my head" about robots on the mobile side.

hmnnnn......

I will let you know.

Thanks....!!!!!!!
:up:

"Also"

I dont beleive I have this mod installed https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=182692 and..... I am confused on why I would need it?