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

[Jase2]

Dartho, you are great!! I will wait for the style release for 3.7 before applying this hack

Thanks!

Regards Jason

[nanaimobar]

Can iPhone, cell phones, and other mobile devices connect to a strictly https site?

[dartho]

Yes - most would support https...

[Jase2]

Hi Dartho,

Sorry to bother you again. But when do you plan to release the style for 3.7? Pretty soon, I hope.

Regards Jason

[WEBDosser]

question, in Custom/User Defined Useragent String there is listed firefox but nothing else.

which means if someone visits my site using firefox they will see the modi style even if they are not using mobile?.. is anyway around that.

plus what other mobile browsers can i put there in the list you see i don't use mobile web myself so is new to me..

[dartho]

You don't need to have anything listed in Custom useragents - it is disabled by default and I suggest you leave it that way.

I'll remove the default "firefox" text which was in there as a kind of reality check - you can test things are working by enabling the Custom section and viewing your site with Firefox.

You could however use the "Custom/User Defined Useragent String" to display a specific style to Firefox users only (it doesn;t have to be mobile)

[WEBDosser]

thanks for that.. i did work that out just after i posted here.. D!OH

and i tested with pocketPC and it works fine, thankyou excellent work.

[Jase2]

Installed -- thank you very much!

Regards Jason

[Jase2]

Hello Dartho,

Doesn't seem to work on this: http://www.operamini.com/demo/ Any ideas why?

[dartho]

Jase - I'm not sure you have it configured correctly. I used that site to test mine and a couple other sites I know to be using this add-on. Yours was the only one not to work. You should double check you settings