Forum Display Enhancements - 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.

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 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.

3.6 Version can be found here

Marked as Beta until I get some feedback, and 3.7 goes Gold

Release Information
1.0.0 Initial release for 3.7 ported over from 3.6.8 version

[dartho]

what's the useragent string of the flip phone?

[^SuiCyde^]

Originally Posted by dartho

That wouldn't be to do with this add-on, it would be caused by the style you are using - check the styles threads for updates...

if that's the case how would i go about correcting that within the style if i am not using your mobile style but rather one that i created myself that works very well except for the security token missing

GOPHER said something to the extent of

Ahhh.. I did the <input type="hidden" name="securitytoken" value="$bbuserinfo[securitytoken]" /> thing and it worked. Thought maybe the 3.7 version would have that in there already.

where do i add this?

[dartho]

From memory, you'd need to add <input type="hidden" name="securitytoken" value="$bbuserinfo[securitytoken]" /> to every form on your site that POSTs data...

[jonah1892]

does this work with 3.8.1

[Tourmeister]

Originally Posted by jonah1892

does this work with 3.8.1

I have the same question. I just updated to 3.8.1 and I have folks asking me to get this mod installed.

[dartho]

works for me

[Tourmeister]

Excellent. I will download and give it a try! Thanks.

[Sooner95]

since i have upgraded to 3.8.1 it is hot or miss if it works..

On my Samsung Instinct, if i use Opera Mini, it works...default browser, it does not. Another user it did not work at all for him anymore..

Any ideas?

[Sooner95]

geez..ok now it works..LOL nevermind..

[student4ever]

I'm new to vB and just installed v3.8.1. Already had a couple people request this for the site. Any word on updating it for v3.8?

thanks!