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]

What exactly doesn't work?

[Filgga]

Originally Posted by dartho

What exactly doesn't work?

The easiest way to get devices detected is to clear system cache:

http://www.yourdomain.com/admincp/misc.php?do=clear_cache

If you have vB Optimise Installed, do flush the cache:

http://www.jamiiforums.com/admincp/vboptimise.php?do=flush

[Mark_Zuckerberg]

It also changes my forum skin on PC tooo

[Robbed]

Originally Posted by dartho

What exactly doesn't work?

It's redirecting to normal skin for some phones and on pc.

When I used to go to mobile site from a pc it would assign the mobile skin and now it doesn't same with some phones and new post for some reason.

[freeones_raymon]

Hi,

Thanks for this great modification! It's sad that vBulletin doesn't have a good build-in functionality for this, but hey... it's vBulletin!

I only found 3 mobile phones/browsers not being detected as mobile, and these are the user agent strings:

• Opera/9.80 (Android 2.3.3; Linux; Opera Mobi/ADR-1207201819; U; sv) Presto/2.10.254 Version/12.00
• Opera/9.80 (Android 4.0.3; Linux; Opera Mobi/ADR-1207201819; U; en) Presto/2.10.254 Version/12.00
• Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_7; en-us) AppleWebKit/530.17 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Safari/530.17 Skyfire/2.0

I think the first 2 can be defined as "Opera Mobi", and someone told me it was better to add "Opera Mini" to the mobile list as well.

Only the last one was the Skyfire browser on a HTC mobile phone, but I cannot find anything in the user agent string that identifies it as a mobile phone. It even looks like the browser has user agent override enabled or something, but I couldn't find anything in the settings.

So if "Opera Mobi" and "Opera Mini" can be added to the mobile detection list for the next version, thanks!

Regards,
Raymond

[sinomama]

My vbulletin is 3.8.5.

To avoid being forced to use the lightweigh style for some users, I uninstalled the previous version and installed this version, and with pleasure I chose yes to Enable Over-riding of Styles..........but neither iPad, nor iPhone can detect the lightweigh style which is assigned to all mobiles in the setting of this plugin.

But if I open by the adress http://mydomain.com/forum.php?styleid=nn, the lightweigh style works in safari of iPad or iPhone, and I can return to the original style by cliquing "default style".
It's great!

Finally, Assignment doesn't work for 3.8.5?

[behcet]

upgrade pls

[Mark93x]

Dartho please update this to 4.2.x

[sadiq6210]

Already there is an option in vBulletin admincp to choose the default mobile style, what this mod will add?

Thanks

[madness85]

Using 4.2 can seem to change back to PC mode