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.

[dartho]

When you say "Guests" - do you mean not you? I would guess that you have not made teh style user selectable and as such guests can not see it - and other users wouldn;t also, but you as admin can as admin can view non user selectable styles.

[AURFSCAN]

stupid me .. so silly so simple, cheers mate thx again.

[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?

Thanks.

[blackberry]

woow gr8 installed and nominated.. works

[cloferba]

does this work with vbulletin 4.0.3?

[dartho]

yes

[Sop]

Hi I install the mobile detection and style product but now on mobile phones it says database error.
The complete error is
Database error in vBulletin 3.8.5:

Invalid SQL:

SELECT *
FROM style
WHERE (styleid = AND userselect = 1)
OR styleid = 2
ORDER BY styleid ASC
LIMIT 1;

MySQL Error : You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'AND userselect = 1)
OR styleid = 2
ORDER BY styleid ASC
LIMIT 1' at line 3
Error Number : 1064
what can I do?

[dartho]

Neither this add-on nor the mobile style run any MySQL queries - not sure where that one comes from. Do you get DB errors when you disable this product and browse to the mobile style manually?

[cclamel]

Hello,

thanks for the great Add-on, but i have a problem.

All images, except Smilies, were viewed as a link.
Is it possible to chaange this?

Thanks and best regards

[dartho]

yes - delete all the "Replacement Variables" for this style