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

[imported_silkroad]

Just a quick question before we change the code a bit....

Did not notice a feature in the AdminCP to only permit auto switching to the mobile skin for certain usergroups.

Did I miss something?

[dartho]

there is no such feature

[imported_silkroad]

No problem... easy enough to write and include this functionality. Basic theme makes a great building block for more advanced features.

[imported_silkroad]

Originally Posted by BGObsession

Dartho...I've got a user with a Nokia N900 who wants to be excluded... any idea what 'user string agent' I need to insert to exclude that model?

Suggest you also create a user cp option to be excluded. That way, any user who selects the "don't switch" option in their cp, will not be switched, if they so desire.

[imported_stefan]

If I want to give all:

> 7' Users a certain style (like all tablet user)

how can I solve this?

So if you are online with a small screen use this template and if you use a bigger screen use that template.

Is it possible with this add on?

Thanks for answering :-).

Stefan

[dartho]

You'd have to check for screen resolution or something other than useragent alone. This doesn't do that

[viper357]

So I just got this message from Google

Dartho, If I install this mod along with a mobile theme, will it solve the above issue?

Thanks.

[viper357]

Sorry, this should have been in the 3.8 thread, but nevermind.