Add-On Releases - VB4 - Mobile Phone / iPhone / PDA Detection and Style Assignment

This is a direct port from my 3.x versions which detects most mobile phones, iPhones, PDAs and other mobile browsing devices and automatically presents the user with a specific vBulletin style.

The one significant addition over previous versions is that a user can now over-ride the style assignment - more information in the notes section.

This will probably work with previous versions of vBulletin (but untested)

What can it do?Detects most mobile phones and presents the user with a specific style. 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
0.5 Uninstall previous versions
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, 3.6 or 3.7 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.

See HERE for a lightweight vBulletin 4 style to go along with this addon

Version Control
1.0.0 - Initial Release
1.0.1 - Add option to enable/disable overriding style assignment.

Notes
Previous versions of this mod have forced a mobile device to a specific style, this is no longer the case! If a user now follows a link which changes the style (using a URL parameter of "styleid=xx") they will then be given that style for the rest of their session. If they close their browser and reload your site, they will then be detected again. Cookies must be enabled on the users browser for overriding detection to work

To Do

• Add an option for users to be able to permanently NOT be detected as a mobile device or explicitly use a specified style.
• Add more devices to detection
• [S]Add option to disable override globally[/S]

[dartho]

You need to be aware that since vb 4.12 (I think) vBulletin have had their own mobile detection script built in - you should check this in your settings to make sure there are no conflicts. It may even suit your purposes in which case you can disable this one (worth doing as part of your testing anyway)

And All android devices should be detected without need for custom useragent strings

[|Jordan|]

Firefox 10 is being detected as a Mobile device.

[dartho]

Have you enabled custom useragent detection with the term "firefox" in thje custom useragents? If so, disable it, or remove "firefox".

ALso double check vBulletins detection settings

[Skyrider]

Installed, didn't detect my Dolphin Browser HD browser on my HTC Desire HD mobile. Still used the default forum style.

[dartho]

vbuletin has it's own detection system in place - this is no longer required. That being said, I use Dolphn - I will check

[res6cue]

Originally Posted by dartho

vbuletin has it's own detection system in place - this is no longer required. That being said, I use Dolphn - I will check

I just jumped from 4.1.0 to 4.1.10 and noticed there is now native vB detection. However your mod has a lot more options. So I guess the question is, does this mod still work and will options I set override the native vB detection or no?

[dartho]

There is a bug with the vbiulletin detection which is to be fixed in 4.1.11 - I'm not sure how this affects this detection script. What I suggest you try is:
Configure the vB detection to 'none' in AdminCP
Apply this fix for 4.1.10 as detailed here: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...99#post2289299

then try again and see how it goes. I just check UA generated by Dilphin - and it uses the word "Android" so should be detected a a mobile device.

[Filgga]

dartho, this plugin is VERY IMPORTANT than the inbuilt vBulletin's detection script.

Can you consider making it compatible with vB Version: 4.2.x?

Thanks

[edytwinky]

Anybody able to get this to work with vb 4.2?

[The Rocketeer]

i would also like to see this work with vb 4.2