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]

[struff]

This is sending ALL my users (not just mobile users) to the Mobile skin. Using IE and Chrome. Did I miss something in the settings?

Thanks.

[dartho]

Sounds like it - have you enabled custom useragent detection with no data?

[struff]

Originally Posted by dartho

Sounds like it - have you enabled custom useragent detection with no data?

Aaah. That was it. Thank you!

[wickedstangs]

Installed and not sure if its working?

[dartho]

Doesn't look like it - have you installed a style for detected devices and configured it? You have no selectable style son your site that I can see...

[Atakan KOC]

Not working.

[dartho]

Yes it is

[demonfatal]

The old version 3.7 is working fine with Vb4.X, this new one have a lot of problem for detect some device and some navigator...
So uninstalled and old version re-installed and all is fine!

[Taurus MFF]

working great, installed!

is there a way to add an option to automatically direct someone to a specific location if they are detected to be coming in on a mobile device?

I'd like to have auto-detected mobile visitors be sent directly to forum.php instead of content.php

edit: in the meantime I used your advice found here so people can just click through after an explanation

[8thos]

It automatically detects mobile phone use but when I click on desktop link, it sends me right back to mobile style.

What am I doing wrong?