Add-On Releases - Mobile Phone / iPhone / PDA Detection and Style Assignment

This add-on will detect most mobile phones, iPhones, PDAs and other mobile browsing devices and automatically for the user to a specific vBulletin style.

Release Information
1.0.1 Initial release for 3.8 ported over from 3.7 version

THIS IS IDENTICAL CODE TO THE 3.7 RELEASE!

I only re-released as soooo many people ask the question "is this OK for 3.8" You do not need to upgrade if you already have installed! However - should there be any changes in the future, it will likely happen here.

What can it do?
Detects most mobile phones and force the user to a specific style (users will not be able to select other styles from a mobile device with this add-on installed). 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 - some links will appear at the bottom of this post
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 or 3.6 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.

Styles released on vBulletin which you can use:
Dartho's Mobile, Cell, Phone, PDA, iPhone Style for vBulletin 3.7 (<-- yep, that's mine)
ElForro's iPhone / iPod Touch Optimized Style
Zachery's vB Lite Style
vBMechanics Mobile Alabama Style

Due to the stripped down nature of these mobile styles, you will find that most for 3.5 and 3.6 will work quite happily on 3.5, 3.6, 3.7 & 3.8 although additional features introduced in vBulletin in recent years such as Social Groups, Blogs and Photo Galleries will not show well on a small screen. All should display your actual forums well.

[Fluke667]

if ($styleid==XXX) {
$vbulletin->GPC['message'] = $vbulletin->GPC['message'] . "\n". "\n". "\n". "\n". "\n". "\n". "\n". "Posted via Mobile Device" . "\n";
}


This works

[sportscolumn]

I'm having a little trouble with this plugin. It works fine when I view it in Firefox and Safari but when I set my user agent to Iphone via Safari, the "switch to full style" link doesn't work.

For example, i have the fullstyle id as 3.

But while this works http://forum.domain.com/index.php?styleid=3 works in firefox and safari, it doesn't work in iphone.

Any suggestions? Thanks

[dartho]

From the description:

What can it do?
Detects most mobile phones and force the user to a specific style (users will not be able to select other styles from a mobile device with this add-on installed).

This one for V4 *migyt* work ... https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...48#post2179248

[sportscolumn]

Originally Posted by dartho

From the description:


This one for V4 *migyt* work ... https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...48#post2179248

noob question. I'm running 3.8.x, are you saying I should replace the code in your product-mobdetect product with the code you linked to?

Also, where do plugins and products live on the server?

thanks

[dartho]

Originally Posted by sportscolumn

noob question. I'm running 3.8.x, are you saying I should replace the code in your product-mobdetect product with the code you linked to?

yep - give it a try

Also, where do plugins and products live on the server?

thanks

You managed to install this one? Same place - AdminCP, manage products and plug-ins

[sportscolumn]

Originally Posted by dartho

yep - give it a try


You managed to install this one? Same place - AdminCP, manage products and plug-ins

I meant where it lives on the server. I'm used to dealing with wordpress where the themes, plugins and css files are all in a certain folder on the server.

I suspect the styles are uploaded to the database in vbulletin?

[dartho]

OK - plugins etc all live in the database also, except where you explicitly upload additional files to your server, in which case they often live in your forum root depending on where the developer wanted them (a plugins code can include external files as it's just a PHP eval)

Yep - styles are also in the database

[sportscolumn]

Originally Posted by dartho

OK - plugins etc all live in the database also, except where you explicitly upload additional files to your server, in which case they often live in your forum root depending on where the developer wanted them (a plugins code can include external files as it's just a PHP eval)

Yep - styles are also in the database

thanks for your help.

[Deafmute]

works vb 3.8x?

[Max Taxable]

Originally Posted by Deafmute

works vb 3.8x?

Yep... Works on mine just fine.