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]

[Dexter_kcd]

Originally Posted by dartho

The every style 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

Yes, I am using your style. I will give this a try over the weekend and see how it works. Thanks for the quick reply, and thanks for these great add-ons. My members appreciate the mobile style a lot.

Cheers,

Dexter...

[dartho]

Sorry - where I said "The every style hack" - I meant the "The sidebars everywhere hack", but all else remains same

[Dexter_kcd]

I knew what you meant.

Unfortunately, that code did not do the trick. I added it to the disable addons option area just as you instructed, logged out from my iPhone, cleared cookies/cache/history, and then browsed to my site. The sidebar is still there. Do you have any other suggestions?

Dexter...

[dartho]

This might work - edit all the everysidebar templates in the lightweight style only, and delete the entire contents of each one

[Dexter_kcd]

Originally Posted by dartho

This might work - edit all the everysidebar templates in the lightweight style only, and delete the entire contents of each one

Hi Dartho,

I finally had time to go back to this problem. The above suggestion worked. I will post it in the thread for the ESB mod.

Thanks for your help.

Dexter...

[steve1966]

hi my mobile devices are not being detected i have to use the style changer what have i done wrong to show the light style

edit if i use i older version 3.7 version it detects but when i click on pc mode it will not change back to the default style any ideas please it still does not detect using the 4.o or 4.01

[dartho]

clear your cookies, or if you want to be selective, just clear he cookies for your site and try again. As soon as you manually select a style, you are effectively turning off auto-detection. In theory, closing all your browser windows should then re-instate it, but it depends on your browser.

[steve1966]

Originally Posted by dartho

clear your cookies, or if you want to be selective, just clear he cookies for your site and try again. As soon as you manually select a style, you are effectively turning off auto-detection. In theory, closing all your browser windows should then re-instate it, but it depends on your browser.

Thank you

[SnapOff Racing]

Would be nice if we could get this working with vB 3.8 as having the option to allow users to decide on whether or not they actually want to view a mobile version is the way to go.

[dartho]

Did you try it? As mentioned in teh first post, it probably will work