Forum Style - Lightweight Style for Small Screen Devices (cell phone, iphone, mobile, android)

A lightweight *forum only style aimed at small screen devices such as Windows Smartphones, Nokias and even iPhones. It has VERY low bandwidth requirements - 15 times less on my site - 20K as opposed to 300K for forumhome.

*forum only - I have done a very small amount of rough work on CMS templates, a simple single column CMS *could* be created to work with this style without too much effort. However I am not sure if you can have a different CMS layout dependent on which style you are using?

This is an update to the mobile style I have previously released.

The changes are predominantly aesthetic to take advantage of larger screens.

It is also much easier to change colour schemes by editing the commented CSS file.

Demo: http://vbdev.org/forum.php?styleid=7

This is a a lightweight style and as such has much reduced functionality/information over the default vBulletin style.

Install instructions:

• Firstly, if upgrading, I recommend installing this as a new style rather than overwriting your previous install. This way you get to test it first without trashing your existing style.
• BACKUP YOUR EXISTING lightweight.css.php FILE IF YOU HAVE CSS CUSTOMISATIONS
• Download ZIP file
• Unzip to a local/temp directory
• Edit lightweight.css.php file to customise colours if required
• Upload contents of the upload directory in the zip file folder to your forum root.
• Install style XML via Style Manager in your ADMINCP
• **Install and configure "LightWeight Style Options"
• See post 2 for a FAQ
• Click "Mark as Installed"
• Test it out
• Leave a rating
• Leave feedback
• Enjoy checking your site from your mobile phone without the need to pinch/zoom/wait etc...

Version Control:

1.0.0 - 25 AUG 2010 - Initial Release on vBulletin.org
1.0.1 - 26 AUG 2010 - Fixed "Mark All Forums Read" link in Search results. Released Lightweight Style Options to customise this
1.0.2 - 21 MAR 2011 - Updated to 4.1.2, removed short tags from CSS, fixed some issues discovered since last release, added some stuff.
1.0.3 - 16 DEC 2011 - Updated to 1.0.3, tried to fix all known issues. Nothing new. If you have updated your site as bugs have been found, probably no need to upgrade. But if you're upgrading your site from to 4.1.9, might be worthwhile.
1.0.3a - 16 DEC 2011 - remove test ad hook code accidently left in postbit_legacy template

Branding Free:

The style is free to use. However I ask that you keep links in the footer. If you want to remove them - send me a donation of an amount you can afford, or that you think is fair/reasonable, it's up to you how much.

[dartho]

If you wish to make this change manually, edit init.php and
search for:

elseif ($mobile_browser_advanced && $vbulletin->options['mobilestyleid_advanced'] && !$vbulletin->GPC[COOKIE_PREFIX . 'skipmobilestyle'])

and replace with

elseif ($mobile_browser_advanced AND $vbulletin->options['mobilestyleid_advanced'] AND !$vbulletin->GPC[COOKIE_PREFIX . 'skipmobilestyle'] AND !$vbulletin->GPC[COOKIE_PREFIX . 'userstyleid'])

and search for

elseif ($mobile_browser && $vbulletin->options['mobilestyleid_basic'] && !$vbulletin->GPC[COOKIE_PREFIX . 'skipmobilestyle'])

and replace with

elseif ($mobile_browser AND $vbulletin->options['mobilestyleid_basic'] AND !$vbulletin->GPC[COOKIE_PREFIX . 'skipmobilestyle'] AND !$vbulletin->GPC[COOKIE_PREFIX . 'userstyleid'])

[dartho]

Originally Posted by yanref

thanks mate.

all working now, and very good it is too.

very impressed with the way you have helped out, so many would not!:up:

Turns out the BASE meta tag needed to be removed as it was being set to the web root as opposed to forum root. Removing it made all links relative, and thus they worked again.

[slinky]

Originally Posted by dartho

Just marking a milestone - this is now the most 'installed' style for VB4

Which speaks volumes about the quality of what one great developer can do versus an entire team of developers in a dozen countries at Internet Brands and vBulletin Solutions.

Kudos to you Dartho. Tremendous work and why I sent you some money like others should do.

[tekmaster]

I have a question:

I'm on 4.1.5 and currently it does not display the register option, I was wondering if this is due to possibly a plugin conflict or a feature I'm supposed to enable but just overlooked?

[dartho]

There is no regiuster option - I've yet to do the registration page (go direct to register.php and you'll see). You could easily enough add it in if desired...

[tekmaster]

Originally Posted by dartho

There is no regiuster option - I've yet to do the registration page (go direct to register.php and you'll see). You could easily enough add it in if desired...

thanks for the quick response, I compared a few of your screenshots and saw the notices box, I used that to do substitute as the register redirect,

thanks

[sportsfroma2]

Originally Posted by dartho

If you wish to make this change manually, edit ini.php and
search for:

elseif ($mobile_browser_advanced && $vbulletin->options['mobilestyleid_advanced'] && !$vbulletin->GPC[COOKIE_PREFIX . 'skipmobilestyle'])

and replace with

elseif ($mobile_browser_advanced AND $vbulletin->options['mobilestyleid_advanced'] AND !$vbulletin->GPC[COOKIE_PREFIX . 'skipmobilestyle'] AND !$vbulletin->GPC[COOKIE_PREFIX . 'userstyleid'])

and search for

elseif ($mobile_browser && $vbulletin->options['mobilestyleid_basic'] && !$vbulletin->GPC[COOKIE_PREFIX . 'skipmobilestyle'])

and replace with

elseif ($mobile_browser AND $vbulletin->options['mobilestyleid_basic'] AND !$vbulletin->GPC[COOKIE_PREFIX . 'skipmobilestyle'] AND !$vbulletin->GPC[COOKIE_PREFIX . 'userstyleid'])

very minor thing, but just wanted to point out that the changes need to be made in init.php (not ini.php).

Anyway, after that fix it works great for me in 4.1.10.

keep up the great work, thanks alot dartho :up:

[dartho]

correct - that's a typo , fixed now

[doobiefillin]

where do i find init.php?

[dartho]

it's a vbulletin file, located in the <forumroot>/includes directory