Mobile, Cell, Phone, PDA, iPhone Style

vBulletin 4.0 version here: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=228986

A very cut back style with very low bandwidth usage which renders well on pretty much all small screen devices from old Nokias to new iPhones.

• Supports viewing/posting/replying in forums
• Supports Private Messaging
• Supports Tags (viewing, not adding)
• Supports viewing and replying to messages in Social Groups
• Supports Thread Prefixes
• has an add-on product to customise here: Extend and Customise Mobile Style (It is recommended that you install this also, but not required)
• Supports other stuff too ....

Notes

• If you are installing this on a vBulletin version higher than the current 'supported' version, and wish to get rid of the Out-of-Date Custom Templates Found! errors, see Post #329 for more information...
• I suggest you also install this add-on to this style to get more out of it...
• To modify the colour scheme of this style, you have to edit the wireless.css file by hand
• If you use a portal such as vbadvanced which you wish to disable in mobile style, see here

Release Information

• Version 0.0.1 - Initial release ported from my 3.6 version here
• Version 0.0.2 - Added auto quoting when replying to a post

  - fixed "Up" link bug
  - Added 'Posted via Mobile Device' message to new posts
  - couple small non - critical bugs fixed in some links
  

• Version 0.0.3 - No change other than change version to 3.7RC2
• Version 0.0.4 - Updated with security tokens tages for forms submital, and Gold version
• Version 0.0.5 - fixed navbar template "Home" link (you will need to edit this if your default forum page is not index.php)
• Version 0.0.6 - added ad_hook locations, fixed page titles, fixed couple small bugs
• Version 0.0.7 - Added Style chooser to UserCP, Post count to threads, Search Page, Attachment Sizes, More detailed time info, viewing/voting in polls, other stuff too probably
• Version 0.0.8 - now has an addon to customise certains aspects of this style - see HERE
• Version 0.0.9 - updated template version numbers to to 3.7.2 - no other changes have been made
• Version 0.0.10 - Now Fully Phrased (thanks Keyser Soze) Other updates included so its add-on product can do more customization

  Both this style and the addon will have the same version numbers - it's best to make sure you update the add-on when updating the style.

• Version 0.0.10a - fixed small bug in footer template

Install Instructions

• Save attached XML to your local computer
• Save attached wireless.css.txt, rename to wireless.css and upload to your forum root
• In AdminCP go to "Styles and Templates"
• In the "Import Style XML File" section browse to where you saved the XML
• Click "Import" button
• Come back to this page and click "Mark as Installed"

Other useful Add-ons to use in Conjunction with this style

• Extend and Customise Mobile Style

  This is a companion add-on designed specifically for this style which allows you to customise some aspects of it without the need to edit templates. Only works with version 0.0.8 and above

• Mobile Phone / iPhone / PDA Detection and Style Assignment

  Will automatically detect a mobile device and force the user to use a pre-defined style

• Different Domain, Different Style

  Will force the user to a predefined style based on URL visited (eg. visiting mobile.yourdomain.com will force the user to use a pre-defined mobile style wilst www.yourdomain.com will display your defaultstyle to the user
  

• Limit Posts/Thread per Page for a Specific Style

  Will set the maximum number of posts and threads displayed on a page based on a style. Whilst you may want to display 25 threads per page on a desktop, a small screen/mobile device would probably benefit from only showing 5 - 10 threads per page.
  

• How to hide a style from style chooser

  This template edit will allow you to 'hide' a style from the Style Chooser so users can't select a specified style.

Other Mobile Styles worth checking out

• ElForro's iPhone / iPod Touch Optimized Style
• Zachery's vB Lite Style
• vBMechanics Mobile Alabama Style

[Jase2]

I see what you mean. I don't think this style was made for a different domain, though -- since Dartho only released an hack to do that not so long ago. It's simply an easy-to-use mobile style!

[swissbob]

Originally Posted by Jase2

I see what you mean. I don't think this style was made for a different domain, though -- since Dartho only released an hack to do that not so long ago. It's simply an easy-to-use mobile style!

Well, it's a match made in heaven.

I think that the titles should be fixed for both the sake of doing it properly for mobile users with decent sized screens and for those forum owners who want to run a separate domain (i.e. me).

[dartho]

Fixing up titles:

Edit the headinclude template and remove:

<title>$vboptions[bbtitle] Mobile</title>

Then edit the showthread template and add:

<title>$thread[prefix_plain_html] $thread[title]<if condition="$pagenumber>1"> - <phrase 1="$pagenumber">$vbphrase[page_x]</phrase></if> - $vboptions[bbtitle]</title>

after the text $headinclude


Then edit the forumdisplay template and add:

<title>$foruminfo[title_clean]<if condition="$pagenumber>1"> - <phrase 1="$pagenumber">$vbphrase[page_x]</phrase></if> - $vboptions[bbtitle]</title>

after the text $headinclude


Then edit the FORUMHOME template and add:

<title>$vboptions[bbtitle] Mobile</title>

after the text $headinclude

[dartho]

In relation to search engines. I started showing this style to Yahoo (my ranking sucks on Yahoo anyway, so I wasn't too concerned about negative side effects and it's always crawling with Yahoo spiders) only yesterday and noticed that my bandwidth usage for the day dropped significantly!

It's hard to tell after only a day, but anywhere between 25% and 50% which is 250 - 500MB on my site!

[swissbob]

Thanks for the titles solution. That will make a huge difference. I love this style on a separate domain that you have created.

Now we just need a hook and plugin for the adsense. Any idea how to add those?

We shouldn't underestimate the worth of the mobile Adsense. I have one other site (not a forum) that has a mobile version and the mobile adsense consistently out performs the main adsense, despite having about 1/3 of the traffic.

[dartho]

New version released - Changes above (post 113) have now been integrated, also added ad_location hooks (be aware that if you have an ad management system these may now be used and display non mobile ads in your style!)

I also played with integrating Google Mobile Adsense - I have done it (I think - it may take a couple days for teh ads to start showing, but it looks promising from the HTML source code of my site) on SHOWTHREAD as below:

Edit: See post 134 for mobile ads integration information...

[TechGuy]

Looks great! Even Opera Mobile likes it.

[Hornstar]

I installed it, and selected it on my pc, but how do I go back to my other skin now? I dont see any skin selection drop down box.

[swissbob]

Originally Posted by dartho

Anyone want to test this stuff and let us know how it goes? I've added all the other ad_location hooks - just need to determine the best vbulletin hooks to use to populate them.

OK, my ads haven't appeared yet, but some test text is in place, thank you.

As for locations, which hooks have you included? showthread_start appears to put the ad code right at the top, above the HEAD section, which I think will cause it to fail validation and breaks the cookies for mobile browsers (i.e. breaks the website).

Ideally, we would want it after the HEAD, and just before the content. Any idea which hook corresponds to this position for every page?

[Hornstar]

Thanks, ive noticed a few slight things, but hopefully you will continue to update and support this skin, because it looks promising! thanks.


Just wonder tho, I have a donation hack installed and it is showing on my mobilie skin, any idea how I will remove this from just the mobile skin? www.gamerzneeds.net/forums

Thanks.