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.

[Shaybloom]

SORRY i'm a newb but where is lightweight.css.php ?

[tareqbd]

Originally Posted by 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.

They cannot tell further about it. Only the coder of the style can work.

[Shaybloom]

SORRY i'm a newb but where is lightweight.css.php ?

[dartho]

Check the dot points on either side of the 5th point I referred you to previously.

[tareqbd]

Originally Posted by dartho

Check the dot points on either side of the 5th point I referred you to previously.

Dartho I have tried to send you PM but your message quota was full. So, I have sent PM to you VbdeV inbox. I am sure that you can help me on that.
Thank you.

[broncoshq]

It's a real shame this can't work with addons. I would love to be able to use dragonbyte's Thanks/Likes addon, and a few others.

Anyway to make them work easily?

[dartho]

ain't nothing I can do if I don't know what you are talking about. links to the hacks you are asking about would go a long way ...

Originally Posted by broncoshq

It's a real shame this can't work with addons. I would love to be able to use dragonbyte's Thanks/Likes addon, and a few others.

Anyway to make them work easily?

No it's not, it's a real benefit for me. Means hacks in the full style don;t get in the way on mobile devices. Just put the hooks and code that you need for hacks in the appropriate templates.

Originally Posted by tareqbd

They cannot tell further about it. Only the coder of the style can work.

tareqbd - re your PM, I'm not sure without manually looking through the templates which I'm sure you are capable of doing

[Filgga]

Originally Posted by dartho

That's not using the new_reply template that comes with this style, or you have an add-on doing stuff. The new_reply template should be:

{vb:stylevar htmldoctype}
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" dir="{vb:stylevar textdirection}" lang="{vb:stylevar languagecode}">
<head>
    {vb:raw headinclude}

    <title>{vb:raw threadinfo.prefix_plain_html} {vb:raw threadinfo.title} - {vb:raw phrase reply_to_topic}</title>
</head>
<body>

<div class="bodywrapping">


{vb:raw header}

{vb:raw navbar}

<div class="titlebg">{vb:rawphrase reply_to_thread}: {vb:raw threadinfo.title}</div>
<form action="newreply.php" method="post">
<div>
{vb:rawphrase message}:<br />
<vb:comment><textarea name="message" id="{$editorid}_textarea" rows="10" cols="15" style="width:99%; height:100px">{vb:raw newpost.message}</textarea></vb:comment>

{vb:raw messagearea}
<input type="hidden" name="emailupdate" value="
<vb:if condition="$emailchecked[0]!=''">
0
<vb:elseif condition="$emailchecked[1]!=''" />
1
<vb:elseif condition="$emailchecked[2]!=''" />
2
<vb:elseif condition="$emailchecked[3]!=''" />
3
<vb:else />
9999
</vb:if>
">
<input type="hidden" name="s" value="{vb:raw session.sessionhash}" />
<input type="hidden" name="securitytoken" value="{vb:raw bbuserinfo.securitytoken}" />
<input type="hidden" name="do" value="postreply" />
<input type="hidden" name="t" value="{vb:raw threadid}" />
<input type="hidden" name="p" value="{vb:raw postid}" />
<input type="hidden" name="specifiedpost" value="{vb:raw specifiedpost}" />
<input type="hidden" name="posthash" value="{vb:raw posthash}" />
<input type="hidden" name="poststarttime" value="{vb:raw poststarttime}" />
<input type="hidden" name="loggedinuser" value="{vb:raw bbuserinfo.userid}" />
<input type="submit" id="btn" name="sbutton" id="{vb:raw editorid}_save" value="{vb:rawphrase submit_reply}" accesskey="s" tabindex="2" />
{vb:raw attachmentoption}

</div>
</form>
{vb:raw footer}
</div>
</body>
</html>

check differences and/or overwrite yours with that and see how you go

Reply with QUOTE removes all formatting (paragraphs). Tried all fixes proposed on this thread in vain.

Edited newreply template with same codes as above but couldn't work!

Pls advise

[tareqbd]

Originally Posted by dartho

ain't nothing I can do if I don't know what you are talking about. links to the hacks you are asking about would go a long way ...




No it's not, it's a real benefit for me. Means hacks in the full style don;t get in the way on mobile devices. Just put the hooks and code that you need for hacks in the appropriate templates.



tareqbd - re your PM, I'm not sure without manually looking through the templates which I'm sure you are capable of doing

OK. Can you help me by saying which major templates I have to go thru in order to save the time.

[dartho]

@tareqbd - the templates whose name appear in bold would be 'major' templates

@filgga - I can not reproduce this and looking at your site, the only quoted posts I see do have paragraphs ... Are you sure about this issue?