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]

[dartho]

have you enabled detection override and are cookies enabled on your device?

[johkalhaups]

I cant get this to detect my Pantech Reveal and I had no problems with the 3.8 version.

[Gomojoe]

So I've installed it and it works, but trys to use the syle on my homepage which is a CMS homepage with articles and such. Is there a method to have it go directly to the forums page when it autodetects instead of my homepage?

[RTWAP]

Getting the following error when the plugin is enabled:

Warning: preg_match() [function.preg-match]: Unknown modifier ' ' in [path]/includes/class_bootstrap.php(890) : eval()'d code on line 39

[dartho]

Originally Posted by RTWAP

Getting the following error when the plugin is enabled:

turn off custom useragent detection if you have no user agents defined

[OldSchoolDSL]

Installed and working 4.0.8

It would be nice though if you either added full CMS & Blog support or if not that, edit this mod to automatically direct them to the forum.

[dartho]

CMS/Blog support has little to do with this mod, that would be up to the style to support. My styles don't but I'm sure others out there do. Also, vBulletin will be releasing a mobile/lightweight style soon which I'm sure will support both!

[Dexter_kcd]

Dartho,

I think there is a conflict between this mod and the Everywhere Sidebar 4 VB4 mod. The ESB mod includes an option to exclude styles from showing the sidebar. Obviously most sites do not want to show a sidebar in a mobile style, so they enter their mobile style id number into the option. But as I outline in this post, it seems that if a mobile style is chosen manually, the exclusion works. If the style is automatically via your mod, the exclusion gets ignored, and the sidebar ends up being shown in the mobile style.

Is there something in the way your mod is identifying the styleid of the forced mobile style that would conflict with another mod identifying it?

Dexter...

[dartho]

The sidebars everywhere hack is only checking what the users default style is, not what style is currently in use. Also, it is checking on global_start which happens before the mobile detect add-on does it's business and possible changes the style, modifying that particular plugin would not work anyway.

If you are using the Lightweight style I wrote, try installin the Lightweight STyle Options addon and add the line

// disable ESB
global $bbandSBactive=0;

to the disable add-ons section

[Cicada]

awesome. bookmarking