Forum Style - Lightweight Style for Small Screen Devices (cell phone, iphone, mobile, android)

A lightweight *forum only style aimed at small screen devices such as Windows Smartphones, Nokias and even iPhones. It has VERY low bandwidth requirements - 15 times less on my site - 20K as opposed to 300K for forumhome.

*forum only - I have done a very small amount of rough work on CMS templates, a simple single column CMS *could* be created to work with this style without too much effort. However I am not sure if you can have a different CMS layout dependent on which style you are using?

This is an update to the mobile style I have previously released.

The changes are predominantly aesthetic to take advantage of larger screens.

It is also much easier to change colour schemes by editing the commented CSS file.

Demo: http://vbdev.org/forum.php?styleid=7

This is a a lightweight style and as such has much reduced functionality/information over the default vBulletin style.

Install instructions:

• Firstly, if upgrading, I recommend installing this as a new style rather than overwriting your previous install. This way you get to test it first without trashing your existing style.
• BACKUP YOUR EXISTING lightweight.css.php FILE IF YOU HAVE CSS CUSTOMISATIONS
• Download ZIP file
• Unzip to a local/temp directory
• Edit lightweight.css.php file to customise colours if required
• Upload contents of the upload directory in the zip file folder to your forum root.
• Install style XML via Style Manager in your ADMINCP
• **Install and configure "LightWeight Style Options"
• See post 2 for a FAQ
• Click "Mark as Installed"
• Test it out
• Leave a rating
• Leave feedback
• Enjoy checking your site from your mobile phone without the need to pinch/zoom/wait etc...

Version Control:

1.0.0 - 25 AUG 2010 - Initial Release on vBulletin.org
1.0.1 - 26 AUG 2010 - Fixed "Mark All Forums Read" link in Search results. Released Lightweight Style Options to customise this
1.0.2 - 21 MAR 2011 - Updated to 4.1.2, removed short tags from CSS, fixed some issues discovered since last release, added some stuff.
1.0.3 - 16 DEC 2011 - Updated to 1.0.3, tried to fix all known issues. Nothing new. If you have updated your site as bugs have been found, probably no need to upgrade. But if you're upgrading your site from to 4.1.9, might be worthwhile.
1.0.3a - 16 DEC 2011 - remove test ad hook code accidently left in postbit_legacy template

Branding Free:

The style is free to use. However I ask that you keep links in the footer. If you want to remove them - send me a donation of an amount you can afford, or that you think is fair/reasonable, it's up to you how much.

[dartho]

Originally Posted by Filgga

when someone goes to the page /private.php there's an error (after upgrade to 4.1.8). The sender of the Private Message is not displayed, you end up getting 'Array' as the sender.

Replace the contents of the pm_messagelistbit template with

<div class="thread_<vb:if condition="$show['unread']">
new</vb:if>"><img src="{vb:stylevar imgdir_statusicon}/pm_{vb:raw pm.statusicon}.png" class="threadicon" alt="" /> <a href="private.php?{vb:raw session.sessionurl}do=showpm&amp;pmid={vb:raw pm.pmid}" class="title">{vb:raw pm.title}</a>

	</div>
<div class="windowbg" id="pm_{vb:raw pm.pmid}">
		<vb:each from="userbit" value="row">
			<a href="{vb:link member|js, {vb:raw row}}" class="username understate">{vb:raw row.username}</a>{vb:raw row.comma}
		</vb:each>
	: {vb:raw pm.senddate},&nbsp;<span class="time">{vb:raw pm.sendtime}</span>
</div>

[dartho]

Also, to get rid of the vertical smilies in new replies etc, delete the contents of the editor_clientscript template and replace the contents of the editor_ckeditor template with that of the editor_toolbar_offtemplate

[Mr Peabody]

Originally Posted by dartho

Replace the contents of the pm_messagelistbit template with

<div class="thread_<vb:if condition="$show['unread']">
new</vb:if>"><img src="{vb:stylevar imgdir_statusicon}/pm_{vb:raw pm.statusicon}.png" class="threadicon" alt="" /> <a href="private.php?{vb:raw session.sessionurl}do=showpm&amp;pmid={vb:raw pm.pmid}" class="title">{vb:raw pm.title}</a>

	</div>
<div class="windowbg" id="pm_{vb:raw pm.pmid}">
		<vb:each from="userbit" value="row">
			<a href="{vb:link member|js, {vb:raw row}}" class="username understate">{vb:raw row.username}</a>{vb:raw row.comma}
		</vb:each>
	: {vb:raw pm.senddate},&nbsp;<span class="time">{vb:raw pm.sendtime}</span>
</div>

Thanks for that

[Amadeusmq]

Would it be a great deal of work to make this style work a bit better with this addon: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=270346 ?

If you need an example, my forums has a bunch of these (i.e., http://www.isxgames.com/forums/project.php?projectid=3 )

[dartho]

@Amadeus - Sorry, that is very unlikely to happen

[Amadeusmq]

Originally Posted by dartho

@Amadeus - Sorry, that is very unlikely to happen

Ok, then how about settings where you could indicate various forum IDs where the addon would switch automatically to the 'default site style', but then switch back to the 'light style' when not in those forums.

Or, is that not possible with the vbulletin addon API?

[dartho]

vBulletin can by default Force forums to styles in the forum properties

[Amadeusmq]

Originally Posted by dartho

vBulletin can by default Force forums to styles in the forum properties

Ah, I didn't know that. I'll check it out.

[thenamesgould]

Originally Posted by Filgga

I doubt, when someone goes to the page /private.php there's an error (after upgrade to 4.1.8). The sender of the Private Message is not displayed, you end up getting 'Array' as the sender.

Probably this' facing me alone?

I'm also getting "Array" in place of the forum member's names whose birthday it is, at the bottom of the main home forum.

[thenamesgould]

Originally Posted by dartho

Also, to get rid of the vertical smilies in new replies etc, delete the contents of the editor_clientscript template and replace the contents of the editor_ckeditor template with that of the editor_toolbar_offtemplate

If I do this, then hit Reply ... the message that I'm replying to appears like this:

PHP Code:

[QUOTE=jamesgould;277526]Message content ...[/QUOTE]<br />
<br /> 


But on the upside, it does retain the line breaks when I do the post. So if those random <br />'s could be removed, I think that would solve my main problem with the style.