Add-On Releases - 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.

Release Information
1.0.1 Initial release for 3.8 ported over from 3.7 version

THIS IS IDENTICAL CODE TO THE 3.7 RELEASE!

I only re-released as soooo many people ask the question "is this OK for 3.8" You do not need to upgrade if you already have installed! However - should there be any changes in the future, it will likely happen here.

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 & 3.8 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.

[Yogesh Sarkar]

Anyone knows useragent for Android based devices, which can be added to exceptions list?

[moonclamp]

Originally Posted by AndrewRich

I would like to add a UserCP option that allows users to override mobile detection and always use the full desktop style. I'm having difficulty figuring out where to add code for this or how to determine the UserCP variable.

I have added a User Profile field, checkbox style, defined as 'field16'. How can I determine whether the user has this checkbox checked or not when the plugin loads?

I've had a similar idea about creating a custom profile field to "turn off mobile detection" ... but like you I can't quite work out where and how to add the conditional ... I'm thinking I should add it to the user agent list plugin?

Does anyone know how?

[Kingdombuilder]

Originally Posted by Yogesh Sarkar

Anyone knows useragent for Android based devices, which can be added to exceptions list?

This is what i did to get it to work for me:

Enable user defined device detection?
Select - yes


Custom/User Defined Useragent String:
Linux; U; Android

Then save. It worked for me i hope it works for you as well

[CvP]

dartho, some users like to browse full version even on mobile devices.
when this mod is enabled, even if they click the "full version" (mobile/lightweight), it doesn't work.

any solution?

[Ansaar Media]

Howe can set that users surfing with there mobile to see avatar's of other members?

Great mod

[dartho]

Originally Posted by CvP

dartho, some users like to browse full version even on mobile devices.
when this mod is enabled, even if they click the "full version" (mobile/lightweight), it doesn't work.

any solution?

check this one and see how you go: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=222

[moonclamp]

Originally Posted by dartho

check this one and see how you go: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=222

Will that still work if you have an 'override' style configured for certain forums?

[dartho]

I dunno - I guess it depends at which point vBulletin overrides the style?

[CvP]

thanks!!

please add it to main post. I'm sure a lot of users will want this.

[dartho]

I just release a new version of this for VB4 here: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=249967