Mobile, Cell, Phone, PDA, iPhone Style

vBulletin 4.0 version here: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=228986

A very cut back style with very low bandwidth usage which renders well on pretty much all small screen devices from old Nokias to new iPhones.

• Supports viewing/posting/replying in forums
• Supports Private Messaging
• Supports Tags (viewing, not adding)
• Supports viewing and replying to messages in Social Groups
• Supports Thread Prefixes
• has an add-on product to customise here: Extend and Customise Mobile Style (It is recommended that you install this also, but not required)
• Supports other stuff too ....

Notes

• If you are installing this on a vBulletin version higher than the current 'supported' version, and wish to get rid of the Out-of-Date Custom Templates Found! errors, see Post #329 for more information...
• I suggest you also install this add-on to this style to get more out of it...
• To modify the colour scheme of this style, you have to edit the wireless.css file by hand
• If you use a portal such as vbadvanced which you wish to disable in mobile style, see here

Release Information

• Version 0.0.1 - Initial release ported from my 3.6 version here
• Version 0.0.2 - Added auto quoting when replying to a post

  - fixed "Up" link bug
  - Added 'Posted via Mobile Device' message to new posts
  - couple small non - critical bugs fixed in some links
  

• Version 0.0.3 - No change other than change version to 3.7RC2
• Version 0.0.4 - Updated with security tokens tages for forms submital, and Gold version
• Version 0.0.5 - fixed navbar template "Home" link (you will need to edit this if your default forum page is not index.php)
• Version 0.0.6 - added ad_hook locations, fixed page titles, fixed couple small bugs
• Version 0.0.7 - Added Style chooser to UserCP, Post count to threads, Search Page, Attachment Sizes, More detailed time info, viewing/voting in polls, other stuff too probably
• Version 0.0.8 - now has an addon to customise certains aspects of this style - see HERE
• Version 0.0.9 - updated template version numbers to to 3.7.2 - no other changes have been made
• Version 0.0.10 - Now Fully Phrased (thanks Keyser Soze) Other updates included so its add-on product can do more customization

  Both this style and the addon will have the same version numbers - it's best to make sure you update the add-on when updating the style.

• Version 0.0.10a - fixed small bug in footer template

Install Instructions

• Save attached XML to your local computer
• Save attached wireless.css.txt, rename to wireless.css and upload to your forum root
• In AdminCP go to "Styles and Templates"
• In the "Import Style XML File" section browse to where you saved the XML
• Click "Import" button
• Come back to this page and click "Mark as Installed"

Other useful Add-ons to use in Conjunction with this style

• Extend and Customise Mobile Style

  This is a companion add-on designed specifically for this style which allows you to customise some aspects of it without the need to edit templates. Only works with version 0.0.8 and above

• Mobile Phone / iPhone / PDA Detection and Style Assignment

  Will automatically detect a mobile device and force the user to use a pre-defined style

• Different Domain, Different Style

  Will force the user to a predefined style based on URL visited (eg. visiting mobile.yourdomain.com will force the user to use a pre-defined mobile style wilst www.yourdomain.com will display your defaultstyle to the user
  

• Limit Posts/Thread per Page for a Specific Style

  Will set the maximum number of posts and threads displayed on a page based on a style. Whilst you may want to display 25 threads per page on a desktop, a small screen/mobile device would probably benefit from only showing 5 - 10 threads per page.
  

• How to hide a style from style chooser

  This template edit will allow you to 'hide' a style from the Style Chooser so users can't select a specified style.

Other Mobile Styles worth checking out

• ElForro's iPhone / iPod Touch Optimized Style
• Zachery's vB Lite Style
• vBMechanics Mobile Alabama Style

[dartho]

It shouldn't put the code at the top - it should put it in place of $ad_location['ad_showthread_beforeqr'] which appears in the showthread template. "Show Thread Start" is just a suitable hook location to run the google script to obtain the ad code for showing ads in SHOWTHREAD...

Wanna PM me your site URL so I can have a squizz?

[dartho]

@hornstar - there is no style chooser with this style. You willneed to add a "&styleid=xx" (where xx is your default styleid nnumber) to the URL to get back to your default...

[Jase2]

Thanks for the update, Dartho!

[Mr.samy]

thanks for supported ...

i install it ...
and i set up Mobile Phone / iPhone / PDA Detection and Style Assignment

if i make google bot redirct to this style is good for seo or bad ?

[dartho]

@Mr.samy - not sure if this would improve SEO or not. There is one question in my mind however - I *believe* that you must present search engines with teh same content as you do visitors otherwise you risk being dropped from search engine data bases for trying to deceive them. If someone in the know could share, that'd be great.

[swissbob]

Originally Posted by dartho

@Mr.samy - not sure if this would improve SEO or not. There is one question in my mind however - I *believe* that you must present search engines with teh same content as you do visitors otherwise you risk being dropped from search engine data bases for trying to deceive them. If someone in the know could share, that'd be great.

Yup, that sounds like 'bait and switch', which is highly frowned upon, although in this case he is, in theory, showing the same content, just not the same layout. No one seems to have a problem using the archive for search engine promotion, so I guess he will be OK.

The problem is that if the risk doesn't pay off and the site gets banned it is a nightmare trying to get back in.

[Hornstar]

Originally Posted by dartho

@hornstar - there is no style chooser with this style. You willneed to add a "&styleid=xx" (where xx is your default styleid nnumber) to the URL to get back to your default...

Is there a way to have the style chooser at the bottom?

[dartho]

You could edit your footer template and add the following at the very top of the template:

<if condition="$show['quickchooser']">
<div>
	<select name="styleid" onchange="switch_id(this, 'style')">
		<optgroup label="$vbphrase[quick_style_chooser]">
			$quickchooserbits
		</optgroup>
	</select>
</div>
</if>

This code won;t have any effect if you are using the mobile autodetect add-on or the different domain, different style addon as these addons *force* the style...

[HFB]

Originally Posted by dartho

You could edit your footer template and add the following at the very top of the template:

<if condition="$show['quickchooser']">
<div>
	<select name="styleid" onchange="switch_id(this, 'style')">
		<optgroup label="$vbphrase[quick_style_chooser]">
			$quickchooserbits
		</optgroup>
	</select>
</div>
</if>

This code won;t have any effect if you are using the mobile autodetect add-on or the different domain, different style addon as these addons *force* the style...

That shows the dropdown menu but it doesn't load another style when it's selected. There probably needs to be other stuff added to support it. The simplest way is to hardcode in a link to your default style there. Nice job on the design!
eg:

<td><a href="http:/index.php?styleid=xx">Switch to Default Style</a></td>

[dartho]

You're right - need to include some javascript as well .... oops..