Forum Display Enhancements - Mobile Phone / iPhone / PDA Detection and Style Assignment

This add-on will detect most mobile phones, iPhones, PDAs and other mobile browsing devices and automatically for the user to a specific vBulletin style.

What can it do?
Detects most mobile phones and force the user to a specific style (users will not be able to select other styles from a mobile device with this add-on installed). 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 - some links will appear at the bottom of this post
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 or 3.6 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.

Styles released on vBulletin which you can use:
Dartho's Mobile, Cell, Phone, PDA, iPhone Style for vBulletin 3.7 (<-- yep, that's mine)
ElForro's iPhone / iPod Touch Optimized Style
Zachery's vB Lite Style
vBMechanics Mobile Alabama Style

Due to the stripped down nature of these mobile styles, you will find that most for 3.5 and 3.6 will work quite happily on 3.5, 3.6 & 3.7 although additional features introduced in vBulletin in recent years such as Social Groups, Blogs and Photo Galleries will not show well on a small screen. All should display your actual forums well.

3.6 Version can be found here

Marked as Beta until I get some feedback, and 3.7 goes Gold

Release Information
1.0.0 Initial release for 3.7 ported over from 3.6.8 version

[dartho]

that is changed in the Replacement Variables section of the mobile style options. You would likely need to remove all off them - if you remove these then all images will show up in the mobile style

Alternatively, you could swap the order of the tags around in the IMG declaration. Try something like :
<img border="0" src="image.jpg" />

I've only tested this in a desktop browser and it works fine there - I image other mobile browsers shouldn't have an issue either...

[EmpireZ]

Thanks for this Darko,
I have a probelm though, Not sure if it is this mod. I tracked it down and seems when I disable this mod it works fine, but I enable this mod and error shows. I know vb put in new securtiy measures too. Here is the error when members try to post/reply using mobile. (Using your mobile skin btw)

Your submission could not be processed because a security token was missing or mismatched.

If this occurred unexpectedly, please inform the administrator and describe the action you preformed before you received this error.

[dartho]

That won't be related to this add-on.

If you post in the thread for the style, I will then know which version of which style you are using and can better help!

[EmpireZ]

Ok, No probelm. I downloaded the latest version of your 3.7 style and seems to be working ok. Ill post in the skin thread if I get the error again.

[dartho]

Cool - thanks. I wasn't being pedantic - when you post in a add-on's thread, the add-on author can see what version you last downloaded which makes troubleshooting easier...

[myadsl]

Is there a way to exclude Opera Mini when using this mod?

[dartho]

Sure is - work out what the Opera Mini useragent string is (you can do this when an opera mini user is online by selecting to view User Agent strings in Who's Online), and add it to the exclusions section :up:

[Tom_S]

I have looked in this thread and do not see the fix or understand the way to resolve getting this to work if you have vBadvanced CMPS installed. Any help?

Thanks in advance...

[dartho]

Best way to get vbadvanced to work with this style is to not use it. Edit your adv_portal template and replace it's contents wit something like

PHP Code:

$stylevar[htmldoctype]
<html dir="$stylevar[textdirection]" lang="$stylevar[languagecode]" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>$vboptions[hometitle] <if condition="$pagetitle">- $pagetitle</if></title>

$headinclude

</head>
<body>

$header

$navbar
<p><a href="forum.php">Portal disabled for Mobile Devices.  Click here to go to Forums</a></p>

$footer

</body>
</html> 


Change the "forum.php" link to be your forums home page.

If you wanted to and had the time to work it out, you could probably strip back vbadvanced with in this style and still have some content there...

[Tom_S]

Ahhh...Now it is coming back to me. See I had it installed pre-3.7.0 and uninstalled it sometime back after a major crash and never reinstalled but didn't remember that bypass. Thanks my friend. And I will make time to do those extra edits you suggest. They make perfect sense and sound worth the extra time. Thanks.