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 wanted to make this simpler, and don;t mind going into debug mode on your site, you could edit the Option Code for Mobile Style boxes in AdminCP so that all styles (both mobile and standard) show up and then you could replace the styleid numbers in the plugin above with $vbulletin->options['mobilestyleid_basic'], $vbulletin->options['mobilestyleid_advanced'] and $vbulletin->options['styleid'] then if you changed styles down the track you wouldn;t need to edit the plugin by hand. You would still need the above plugin to make it work.

To do this change the Option Code to:

PHP Code:

select:eval
//options = fetch_style_title_options_array('', false, 'mobile');
$options = fetch_style_title_options_array();
$options = array('0' => $vbphrase['none']) + $options; 


[Filgga]

Originally Posted by dartho

To do this change the Option Code to:

PHP Code:

select:eval
//options = fetch_style_title_options_array('', false, 'mobile');
$options = fetch_style_title_options_array();
$options = array('0' => $vbphrase['none']) + $options; 


Superb! I know, many will benefit from this... Do I add the code onto the above code and look like:

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) 
$styleid=89;  //Advanced mobile style ID
else if ($vbulletin->mobile_browser)
$styleid=89;   //Basic mobile style ID
else 
$styleid=1;  //everyone else gets default style default style

select:eval
//options = fetch_style_title_options_array('', false, 'mobile');
$options = fetch_style_title_options_array();
$options = array('0' => $vbphrase['none']) + $options; 


?

Thanks for your prompt response

[dartho]

No - you would need to put your site into debug mode, then go into your vbulletin options in AdminCP where you choose the style settings and click on the edit link next to where you select the mobile styles and change the Option Code in there

[Filgga]

Originally Posted by dartho

No - you would need to put your site into debug mode, then go into your vbulletin options in AdminCP where you choose the style settings and click on the edit link next to where you select the mobile styles and change the Option Code in there

Gotcha!

Will revert to you once successful. Obrigado!

----Edit----

I worked. Thanks much!

[Shaybloom]

How do i change the blue colour thats all over including the footer to black??
I tried changing footer colour and border almost everything in footer IN Style Variable Editor
to black and saved it it even shows red colour indicating it is edited but strangely enough NOTHING has changed on the theme on the forum,its still BLUE
please help!

[tareqbd]

Originally Posted by dartho

edit the SHOWTHREAD template,
search for (near the bottom of the template)

{vb:raw footer}

and add the following immediately above it

{vb:raw template_hook.showthread_below_posts}

OK, I have tried already but no luck. Still the charged content not loading on click.
Any other suggestion please.

[dartho]

Originally Posted by Shaybloom

How do i change the blue colour thats all over including the footer to black??
I tried changing footer colour and border almost everything in footer IN Style Variable Editor
to black and saved it it even shows red colour indicating it is edited but strangely enough NOTHING has changed on the theme on the forum,its still BLUE
please help!

see the 5th dot point of the install instructions

[dartho]

Originally Posted by tareqbd

OK, I have tried already but no luck. Still the charged content not loading on click.
Any other suggestion please.

I don;t use that add-on. Have you asked them what requirements are?

[tareqbd]

Originally Posted by dartho

I don;t use that add-on. Have you asked them what requirements are?

Yes, I did. Their reply was as below:

Quote Originally Posted by Belazor View Post
showthread_below_posts is needed for the JS code that powers charged content.

[dartho]

So they told you the same thing again? Did you let them know that adding that hook didn't appear to work for you? If not, you may want to do so.