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

[Fungsten]

Originally Posted by SIINSI

For some reason, some of my users are getting the "Posted via Mobile Device" under there posts even when posting from a PC. Any ideas why?

I have 3 styles. A light style a dark style and your mobile style.

Thanks,
Miguel

Some of my users are getting that too. I left a message for the author of the Mobi style.

[dartho]

Originally Posted by robgtheengineer

Not working on Zavine.com. Installed this plugin with the mobile theme.

I'm guessing it is mis-configured - or possibly conflicting with another add-on.

[nhlchuck]

Is there a way, on the users end, if the site has auto detect on that I can view the standard style on an Ipod and not the mobile?

[dartho]

you can specify which style to display to ipod/iphone users.

[m@ilm@n]

Silly question im sure, everything seems to be working great but any time the user post his/her signature is not attached to the post? Is there any way to edit this so that if you do post from your mobile that your sig will be attached so when you get back on your PC your sig is in your posts?

[trigatch4]

1) When users are viewing the mobile version, there is no way to change BACK to the other styles, even with style selection enabled and numerous styles active.

2) I LOVE the fact that its optimized for mobile, but most of my mobile users are visiting from phones that have "full web browsers" and I was hoping for a style that, while optimized for mobile, still includes graphics and pictures and all that jazz... just quicker to load and with proper dimensions...

Appreciate help on either of these!

[dartho]

1) That is correct - it is by design. If you wish to allow users to change between styles, then you don't need this add-on

2) Assuming you ar eusing the mobile style I made, you can 'enable' smiles and images by removing the 'replacement variables' defined in the style

[nureeves]

hello ..
i've installed it on my forum, but my default style still loaded rather than its mobile style
did i miss something? i use opera on mobile

[trigatch4]

Dartho... you make good points. The thing is, I want to FORCE the user to the mobile version initially but be able to switch/use the full version if they wish. Otherwise, if it STARTS on the full version and they are able to switch TO the mobile version, I think they are much less likely to see where/how to switch since there is so much going on. Whereas a link to use the FULL VERSION on the mobile theme would be easily spotted.

Secondly, where can I find the Replacement Variables?

EDIT: Regardless, I should add you've done a great job and thanks for the valuable addition to the community!

[gim]

Thanks for this great plugin