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.

[Hippy]

Originally Posted by Marco Aurelio

Hi dartho, thanks for your lightweight!

Please, help me! In vBulletin 4.2, this:

{vb:raw post.post_thanks_bit}

doesn't work! How can I fix?

search post thanks in this thread youll find the code for the whole mod to work..

[K4GAP]

Originally Posted by Alan_SP

Well, I think that you should install it and see differences for yourself.

In my opinion, dartho's style is much better, I use it when I'm on mobile internet and don't need vB mobile style at all. But, it all comes down to your own tastes.

In most cases that is exactly what I do. But usually an alternative will have listed advantages i.e. does this or that work or look better than the original.

[dartho]

Originally Posted by GaryT

In most cases that is exactly what I do. But usually an alternative will have listed advantages i.e. does this or that work or look better than the original.

There is no comparison as there was no vBulletin mobile style when I made this one. I'm not sure if vBulletin listed advantages / comparisons to this one when they release their alternative though

[Marco Aurelio]

Originally Posted by Hippy

search post thanks in this thread youll find the code for the whole mod to work..

Sorry, but this:

Originally Posted by dartho

Integrating Abe1's post thanks add-on into the lightweight style.

replace the following templates with the code provided (in the lightweight style only!!)
post_thanks_box

<if condition="$post_thanks_box"><div class="windowbg" id="post_thanks_box_$post[postid]">$post_thanks_box</div></if>

post_thanks_button

<a id="btn" href="post_thanks.php?{vb:raw session.sessionurl}do=post_thanks_add&amp;p={vb:raw post.postid}&amp;securitytoken={vb:raw bbuserinfo.securitytoken}" id="post_thanks_button_{vb:raw post.postid}"<vb:if condition="$vboptions[disable_ajax] != 2"> onclick="return post_thanks_give({vb:raw post.postid}, <vb:if condition="$vboptions[post_groan_integrate]">true<vb:else />false</vb:if>);"</vb:if> <vb:if condition="$display_thanks_image == 'none'">style="display:none"</vb:if> rel="nofollow" class="post_thanks_button">{vb:rawphrase post_thanks_thanks}</a>

post_thanks_postbit

<vb:if condition="$post['post_thanks_amount'] == 1">
			{vb:rawphrase post_thanks_user_says, {vb:raw post.username}}
		<vb:else />
			{vb:rawphrase post_thanks_users_say, {vb:raw post.post_thanks_amount_formatted}, {vb:raw post.username}}
		</vb:if>
{vb:raw post.post_thanks_bit}

Edit both the postbit & postbit_legacy templates as follows

Search for:

<vb:if condition="$post['editlink']"><a id="btn" href="{vb:raw post.editlink}">{vb:rawphrase edit}</a></vb:if>

Add the following immediately above:

{vb:raw template_hook.postbit_controls}

Then go to end of template and paste in:

{vb:raw template_hook.postbit_end}

and your done!

doesn't work after upgrade to vBulletin 4.2, because I don't see {vb:raw post.post_thanks_bit}. I write that code in template, but it doesn't appear on forum, so I don't know who thanked.

[dartho]

You haven't really given us enough info to help, but I would guess you need to redo the post bit template edits

[Hippy]

Originally Posted by Marco Aurelio

Sorry, but this:



doesn't work after upgrade to vBulletin 4.2, because I don't see {vb:raw post.post_thanks_bit}. I write that code in template, but it doesn't appear on forum, so I don't know who thanked.

still works for me ..
check your work over

[Filgga]

Originally Posted by dartho

Looks like he did here:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...46#post2322346

There's no direct fix for this? I've some customizations made and re-installing the same to fix this minor bug seems to be painful



BTW, have you managed to get vBSEO Like system compatible with it?

[dartho]

Sorry but I I don't have vbseo so can not look at this. But if it is just a matter of some hooks needing to be added to templates it would be trivial to do if you could find out which hooks are used by the vbseo hack.

You could export the style from your site, including your customisations, and re-install that as per the suggested 'fix' ?

[Filgga]

Originally Posted by dartho

Sorry but I I don't have vbseo so can not look at this. But if it is just a matter of some hooks needing to be added to templates it would be trivial to do if you could find out which hooks are used by the vbseo hack.

Yeah, loud n clear

You could export the style from your site, including your customisations, and re-install that as per the suggested 'fix' ?

Yep, this fixes the problem but another problem rises:
1. If installed as a Standard skin, then the error is fixed!
2. If installed as a mobile skin, the same error comes

Problem: Using vB's default style assignment the theme doesn't appear to be selective under Settings > Options > Style & Language Settings (for mobile themes)

I bet, this' not your fault. vB team was supposed to allow any skin from standard to mobile can be selected to be assigned for mobile users. I see no point of forcing someone to categorize them (IMHO)

What's your suggestion?

[dartho]

vBulletin messed things up for this style when the seperated mobile and standard styles.

If you want to use VB detection and simply apply one style to advanced mobile devices, one style to basic mobile devices and a default style to everyone and allow people to select their own style (assuming they are already allowed to do this on your site) and still allow admin to pick any style they want, the following should do it.

Create a plugin on style_fetch with the following code being sure to enter in teh styleids you want for mobile, advanced mobile and default styles:

PHP Code:

//VB has already check and set cookies if the user can skip the style, so just read what they wrote
$vbulletin->input->clean_array_gpc('c', array(
    COOKIE_PREFIX . 'userstyleid'     => TYPE_INT,
    COOKIE_PREFIX . 'skipmobilestyle' => TYPE_BOOL,
));
$skip = $vbulletin->GPC[COOKIE_PREFIX . 'skipmobilestyle'];
//Admin can have any style they want, so check if they're an admin and have specificed a styleid
if ($vbulletin->userinfo['permissions']['adminpermissions'])
{
$vbulletin->input->clean_gpc('r', 'styleid', TYPE_INT);
$styleid = $vbulletin->GPC['styleid'];
}
else if ($skip)
//if the user is not an admin has chosen to skip the mobile style (if allowed) give them default
$styleid=$vbulletin->GPC[COOKIE_PREFIX . 'userstyleid'];
else if ($vbulletin->mobile_browser_advanced) 
$styleid=20;  //Advanced mobile style ID
else if ($vbulletin->mobile_browser)
$styleid=7;   //Basic mobile style ID
else 
$styleid=1;  //everyone else gets default style default style