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]

That's either the mobile style or your settings not showing a style chooser, not this add-on.

[Megatr0n]

I haven't touched the settings. Was I suppose to after installing?

Can, you help me with this?

[BlueChipEarth]

Originally Posted by dartho

G'day jbeam,

I am guessing that your issue is that the style is not checked as user selectable in Style manager.

As you are an admin, you can view non-selectable styles - this explains why the style doesn't show up till you log in with admin credentials.

Dartho, I had this same problem and indeed it was because I didn't have "Allow User Selection" enabled.

Everything works great!

Installed!

(Also, I'm using your style, looks great!)

[dartho]

Megatr0n - what style are you using? If it is this style you will need to also install this add-on to add an optional style chooser

[Megatr0n]

Originally Posted by dartho

Megatr0n - what style are you using? If it is this style you will need to also install this add-on to add an optional style chooser

Ohhhh....

[BGObsession]

Dartho,
Thanks for the fine mod. I redid the adv_portal template code per your recommendations, which did work to put a redirect link on the first log-in screen. My follow up question is, when I log-in on my blackberry, here's what I'm seeing as links listed:

Blogs
Your Blog
Recent Entries
Best Entries
Best Blogs
Blog List
Search Blogs
Home New Posts User CP
*and my "Portal disabled for Mobile Devices. Click here to go to Forums" link just inserted

Obviously the 'Blog-related links are getting pulled from the Blog software. How can I get rid of all that? Since there doesn't appear to be a fix to have mobile users directed to the 'Forums' page only, I'd prefer that the only thing that be on the initial screen are:

Log-in fields
Home
New Posts
User CP
'Portal disabled for Mobile Devices. Click here to go to Forums' link

Thanks in advance for your help (I'd also be curious how to move the 'Portal disabled' verbage down a couple of lines so its not shoved up against the other links?).

[abrecher]

Users are directed to a custom CMS I have running on index.php on my site. How can I force the mobile users to go to forum.php ?

[dartho]

@BGObsession - You've obviously fixed it - looks fine to me
@abrecher - see other thread you posted same Question in

[BGObsession]

Any reason you can think of it would appear 'fixed' in 'mobile' skin on my site (from a PC), while still showing all of those blog options on a portable device (cleared cache on my device, still showing up)? And its not just on the initial screen, every single screen starts with that list of blog options no matter where I navigate....

Frustrating....

[dartho]

I had look at the source - the blogs addon is adding in a dropdown menu for blogs which a desktop browser is smart enough to know not to display, but the mobile browser - not so smart.

If you delete the contents of the blog_navbar_link_menu template in your mobile style, that should stop it showing up