Mobile, Cell, Phone, PDA, iPhone Style

vBulletin 4.0 version here: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=228986

A very cut back style with very low bandwidth usage which renders well on pretty much all small screen devices from old Nokias to new iPhones.

• Supports viewing/posting/replying in forums
• Supports Private Messaging
• Supports Tags (viewing, not adding)
• Supports viewing and replying to messages in Social Groups
• Supports Thread Prefixes
• has an add-on product to customise here: Extend and Customise Mobile Style (It is recommended that you install this also, but not required)
• Supports other stuff too ....

Notes

• If you are installing this on a vBulletin version higher than the current 'supported' version, and wish to get rid of the Out-of-Date Custom Templates Found! errors, see Post #329 for more information...
• I suggest you also install this add-on to this style to get more out of it...
• To modify the colour scheme of this style, you have to edit the wireless.css file by hand
• If you use a portal such as vbadvanced which you wish to disable in mobile style, see here

Release Information

• Version 0.0.1 - Initial release ported from my 3.6 version here
• Version 0.0.2 - Added auto quoting when replying to a post

  - fixed "Up" link bug
  - Added 'Posted via Mobile Device' message to new posts
  - couple small non - critical bugs fixed in some links
  

• Version 0.0.3 - No change other than change version to 3.7RC2
• Version 0.0.4 - Updated with security tokens tages for forms submital, and Gold version
• Version 0.0.5 - fixed navbar template "Home" link (you will need to edit this if your default forum page is not index.php)
• Version 0.0.6 - added ad_hook locations, fixed page titles, fixed couple small bugs
• Version 0.0.7 - Added Style chooser to UserCP, Post count to threads, Search Page, Attachment Sizes, More detailed time info, viewing/voting in polls, other stuff too probably
• Version 0.0.8 - now has an addon to customise certains aspects of this style - see HERE
• Version 0.0.9 - updated template version numbers to to 3.7.2 - no other changes have been made
• Version 0.0.10 - Now Fully Phrased (thanks Keyser Soze) Other updates included so its add-on product can do more customization

  Both this style and the addon will have the same version numbers - it's best to make sure you update the add-on when updating the style.

• Version 0.0.10a - fixed small bug in footer template

Install Instructions

• Save attached XML to your local computer
• Save attached wireless.css.txt, rename to wireless.css and upload to your forum root
• In AdminCP go to "Styles and Templates"
• In the "Import Style XML File" section browse to where you saved the XML
• Click "Import" button
• Come back to this page and click "Mark as Installed"

Other useful Add-ons to use in Conjunction with this style

• Extend and Customise Mobile Style

  This is a companion add-on designed specifically for this style which allows you to customise some aspects of it without the need to edit templates. Only works with version 0.0.8 and above

• Mobile Phone / iPhone / PDA Detection and Style Assignment

  Will automatically detect a mobile device and force the user to use a pre-defined style

• Different Domain, Different Style

  Will force the user to a predefined style based on URL visited (eg. visiting mobile.yourdomain.com will force the user to use a pre-defined mobile style wilst www.yourdomain.com will display your defaultstyle to the user
  

• Limit Posts/Thread per Page for a Specific Style

  Will set the maximum number of posts and threads displayed on a page based on a style. Whilst you may want to display 25 threads per page on a desktop, a small screen/mobile device would probably benefit from only showing 5 - 10 threads per page.
  

• How to hide a style from style chooser

  This template edit will allow you to 'hide' a style from the Style Chooser so users can't select a specified style.

Other Mobile Styles worth checking out

• ElForro's iPhone / iPod Touch Optimized Style
• Zachery's vB Lite Style
• vBMechanics Mobile Alabama Style

[dartho]

@punchbowl - What should be ahppening is that the smilie should b replaced by :-) - you got something wihch seems to interfere with that. Remove the "replacement variables" defined in this style to show all images (including smilies) inline.

[punchbowl]

Originally Posted by dartho

@punchbowl - What should be ahppening is that the smilie should b replaced by :-) - you got something wihch seems to interfere with that. Remove the "replacement variables" defined in this style to show all images (including smilies) inline.

perfect! Cheers

[ali7118]

Thank you ...

[Quarterbore]

Originally Posted by Crimm

Dartho everything is looking great.

I have been so busy with work I haven't stopped by in a long time.

I actually adapted one of your first versions so much ... I'm scared to try and upgrade

If this has been posted before please ignore... I haven't gone through it all yet. I have been testing caching. I noticed that my BlackBerry was caching an awfully lot on the 3.7 version.

I kept having to refresh when clicking a link. I have added the following META tags to the style and I'm letting it sit for a week or two to get a good test:

<META HTTP-EQUIV="Cache-Control" CONTENT ="no-cache">

or

<META HTTP-EQUIV="expires" CONTENT="0">

*NOTE*: I only added it to the online template, search template and forum home template. I realize that it can slow things down a bit, but having to refresh was getting annoying

Have you thought about caching or has anyone else had this issue?

Originally Posted by dartho

Seems vBulletin only sets cache headers on Forum home:

	<!-- no cache headers -->
	<meta http-equiv="Pragma" content="no-cache" />
	<meta http-equiv="Expires" content="-1" />
	<meta http-equiv="Cache-Control" content="no-cache" />
	<!-- end no cache headers -->

I've not noticed any issues on my own site using PocketIE on a windows mobile device, but it makes sense...

I had the same problem and I noticed that the adv_portal template (likely from vBAdvanced had this code:

PHP Code:

<if condition="$pages['name'] == 'home'">
    <meta http-equiv="Cache-Control" content="no-cache" />
    <meta http-equiv="Pragma" content="no-cache" />
    <meta http-equiv="Expires" content="0" />
</if> 


So, I removed the <If ... <//if> and my vBAdvanced pages are no longer cached!

Next, I went into the mobile style and mofified the headinclude value to add the following:

PHP Code:

    <meta http-equiv="Cache-Control" content="no-cache" />
    <meta http-equiv="Pragma" content="no-cache" />
    <meta http-equiv="Expires" content="0" /> 


Now my Blackberry does not cache anything on my forums but that is a good things as forum content is always changing!

Lastly, I also modified the navbar template to add links to the pages my users are most likely going to use from their mobile device:

PHP Code:

<a class="navbar" href="$vboptions[bburl]/search.php?$session[sessionurl]do=getnew">$vbphrase[new_posts]</a>
<a class="navbar" href="$vboptions[bburl]/search.php?$session[sessionurl]do=getdaily">$vbphrase[todays_posts]</a>
<a class="navbar" href="$vboptions[bburl]/search.php?$session[sessionurl]do=process&showposts=0&exactname=1&searchuser=$bbuserinfo[username]">My Posts</a> 
<a class="navbar" href="$vboptions[bburl]/search.php?$session[sessionurl]do=process&showposts=0&starteronly=1&exactname=1&searchuser=$bbuserinfo[username]">My Topics</a> 


Note that My Posts and My Topics are not vBulletin phrases SO if you update the style you might need to create a product.xml file to add these

Lastly, I made some changes to vBAdvanced to remove the vBAdvanced integrations from pages shown to this style and I posted the details on what was needed here:

http://www.vbadvanced.com/forum/showthread.php?t=28355

I hope that helps someone else.... :up:

You can see my site here:

http://www.timeshareforums.com/mobile

Note I have made other changes to the style and templates that I can't try to list here!

[dartho]

Thanks for sharing Quarterbore!

[wilson.dvb2]

How can i allow mobile viewers swith mobile style to PC style on mobile device ?

[dartho]

Installing this (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=182692) addon will give you options to show the style chooser or a show link to your default style

[mmblz]

I have vb 3.7 and found that I had to edit the USERCP template to hide the social group link when appropriate. Just needed to add this if wrapper around the link:

<if condition="$show['socialgroupslink']">
<a href="group.php?$session[sessionurl]">$vbphrase[social_groups]</a> <br />
</if>

[wilson.dvb2]

Originally Posted by dartho

Installing this (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=182692) addon will give you options to show the style chooser or a show link to your default style

thanks

i installed it , when i gives a link to my default style it shows the style link but when i click it on mobile device browser it shows mobile style again and dont change style to pc mode !!

[dartho]

Would you be using this autodetect add-on? If so, users can't change the style as that add-on is designed to force them to the mobile style.