Add-On Releases - VB4 - Mobile Phone / iPhone / PDA Detection and Style Assignment

This is a direct port from my 3.x versions which detects most mobile phones, iPhones, PDAs and other mobile browsing devices and automatically presents the user with a specific vBulletin style.

The one significant addition over previous versions is that a user can now over-ride the style assignment - more information in the notes section.

This will probably work with previous versions of vBulletin (but untested)

What can it do?Detects most mobile phones and presents the user with a specific style. 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
0.5 Uninstall previous versions
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, 3.6 or 3.7 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.

See HERE for a lightweight vBulletin 4 style to go along with this addon

Version Control
1.0.0 - Initial Release
1.0.1 - Add option to enable/disable overriding style assignment.

Notes
Previous versions of this mod have forced a mobile device to a specific style, this is no longer the case! If a user now follows a link which changes the style (using a URL parameter of "styleid=xx") they will then be given that style for the rest of their session. If they close their browser and reload your site, they will then be detected again. Cookies must be enabled on the users browser for overriding detection to work

To Do

• Add an option for users to be able to permanently NOT be detected as a mobile device or explicitly use a specified style.
• Add more devices to detection
• [S]Add option to disable override globally[/S]

[bfdzio]

Originally Posted by dartho

You would be after:

if (($vbulletin->options['mob_detect_enabled'] == 1) AND ($bbuserinfo['fieldxx'] == "On"))
{

...

}

The confusing thing with this issue you are having is that it detects and assigns the style initially, but then presents with default subsequently - I'm not sure how it could do that based on what you are reporting.

This is exactly what is happening to me, with Android (Froyo). I received the mobile style at first only once, then since then it hasn't worked.

[dartho]

new version released which adds a "disable style override" option and *might* resolve the issue reported by a couple of detection on being triggered on first page visited

[Robru]

A user with an Appele iPad wants the default style, must I put 'iPad' in the Useragent Exceptions section?

[dartho]

Yes, that should work

[swiftor]

Hmm, doesn't seem to work with my iphone (only device I have to try it with).

I have it set to use the mobile style for mobile devices... but it still brings me to the default style. Any thoughts?

Thanks!

[dartho]

Do you have the mobile style set as user selectable. Double check your settings in AdminCP and take a screen shot to post here if still not working. Thanks

[swiftor]

I believe these are the relevant screens, and yep, the style is available to anyone, guest or otherwise.

[dartho]

That all looks correct. I've just connected to your site using my desktop browser with a spooffed USER Agent (pretending to be an iPhone) and got the lightweight style OK. The full style link does not work though, as you have specified not to enable over-ride.

Could you try 2 things. 1 - clear all your cookies, and then if that doesn;t work, log out of vbulletin and clear the cookies again then connect to your site again.

Also try turning off iPhone detection (having Mobiule Detection enabled implicitly catches iPhones also)

[masons]

Works great! woohoooooooo!

[swiftor]

strange, i used the user switch agent to manually add the user agent of my iphone 4, and it works in my browser then. but no matter what i do, I can't get it to work on my actual iphone4. cleared cache/cookies/history. restarted iphone for good measure. not logged in. still doesn't work, haha.

i'm going to ask some of my users to try it out, if its just me I don't mind.

Many thanks for your awesome products and excellent responsiveness. you rock.

here is the user agent just for reference:

Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/532.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.5 Mobile/8B117 Safari/6531.22.7