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

[rasp187]

Mobile style was never a default template...the green template is the default template.

The minute I enable the this product it switches my template to the mobile template, yet when I go into my account via the admincp, it says "default template" as the one assigned to my account, and the default template is the green template per what I have in the admincp.

So basically this is overriding any setting I have and basically determining everything to be a mobile device.

[Division]

I havent been able to get the hack to work since i upgraded to 3.8 is their anything i need to update??

[dartho]

Shouldn't be any issues with this under 3.8 - that's why I've not ported it as it would be the same ...

[jjrambo]

i keep getting invalid file for this.

I'm running 3.7.0

[dartho]

Are you trying to install it as a style? It is a product which should be installed via product manager

[jjrambo]

Originally Posted by dartho

Are you trying to install it as a style? It is a product which should be installed via product manager

i tried that and it kept saying invalid.

[lowlight]

The following user agents are detected as "Mobile" by this script:

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en; rv:1.8.1.23) Gecko/20090925 Camino/1.6.10 (like Firefox/2.0.0.23)

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/523.12.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0.4 Safari/523.12.2

[dartho]

I'm not sure what is triggering that. You could add "Macintosh" to the exclusions section as a work around ...

[jmpa]

Does this works on 3.8?

[dartho]

Yep