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]

[ViewMy.biz]

I am migrating soon to a new server and havent redirected my url yet. The force mobie that comes with 4.1.3 does not work for my win 5.5 mobile phone and I can't test other phones until I go live with my new server.

Once I pick the lightweight style Dartho's light style works great unless I have a forum with a forced style.

Can this add on work with 4.1.3, or is forced already working for everyone but me?

here is my beta http://69.64.89.197

[S_E_A]

Hello dartho,

I may have come across a problem:

new posts -> last page -> redirects to forum index rather than last page of thread?

[Danny M]

Does this also work on iPods?

[alhindasi]

this mod use mobile skin in google chrome can you fix it please

[wullieclsfb]

not detecting mobile style in vbulletin 4.1.5 pl1

[dartho]

vbulletin 4.1.2 and above has it's own mobile detection, use that instead.

[rapung]

I dunno what to do with this. It didn't work when I tried to open my forum by a cell phone. Is there anything I missed ?

[Amadeusmq]

Does this addon require that the setting "Allow Users To Change Styles" be set to YES in the admin control panel?

I prefer to maintain a single style for the site (so I don't let the style be changed); however, I would love to be able to offer mobile (small screens) a different style.

[dartho]

No - no need to allow users to change styles, but the style must be user selectable (ie. have a tick in teh checkbox next to it in admincp, Style Manager)

[Amadeusmq]

Originally Posted by dartho

No - no need to allow users to change styles, but the style must be user selectable (ie. have a tick in teh checkbox next to it in admincp, Style Manager)

Hmmm...then I must be doing something wrong.

Here is the agent string for my Samsung Charge:

xxxxx.myvzw.com - - [24/Nov/2011:14:18:14 -0800] "GET /forums/cpstyles/darkvision/statusicon/forum_old-48.png HTTP/1.1" 200 3940 "http://www.isxgames.com/forums/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 2.2.1; en-us; SCH-I510 Build/FROYO) AppleWebKit/533.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/533.1"

I tried putting "Mobile Safari" in the "Custom/User Defined Useragent String" SETTING (by itself). That didn't seem to do anything. Do I need to put the entire string?