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

[Mansour]

Hi

Good job, I was looking for something like this. thanks.

I have some suggestions, is it possible to show the number of user who are accessing the forum through a mobile device?

• Add the total number of mobile users in "Currently Active Users".
• Show mobile icon next to a username in "What's Going On?" box.
• Show mobile icon next to a username in the post if he currently logged on using mobile.

Thanks for this grate add-on.

[dartho]

Nice suggestions - I guess these would be done based on which style a user is viewing your site with. I'm a bit busy, but if I have a moment of clarity, I'll have a go - if anyone else has an idea how to do this, I'd be happy to incorporate it or you could make an add-on ...

[codemafia]

it would really be nice if this mod not only switched the skin for mobile users but also only displayed certain forums for forum users aswell. If this may have sparked a light bulb for you and its something you code in the future please update me!

[sweede]

Nokia sidekick user agent
Mozilla/5.0 (Danger hiptop 3.4; U; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050920

[kyle1745]

Ok I installed this and it seems to adjust to the mobile style on my Blackberry but I am unable to see my forums. I did have to add the recommended template change to disable vbadvanced, but even with that I get the mobile page, but I am unable to see any forums. Its just a page with title links and footer.

I am running vBulletin 3.7.3 Patch Level 1...

Thanks for any ideas,
Kyle

[inbrissy]

might be a silly question, but would it be possible to have an option to set for specific users to NOT view the optimized skin?

Mainly because things like "Who is online" options are not available in these optimized skins, which is useful for the moderators and admins.

With this enabled, you can't go back to the original skin.

[dartho]

Kyle - could you let meknow your sites address and I'll have a look

inbrissy - I wouldn't iumagine it would be too difficult, there are probably other addon's which can stop speficied users/groups from using specific styles.

[MentaL]

This work with a PSP browser?

[MentaL]

Anyone wanting to help me make a SEO friendly list Ide appreciate it, ive got so far.

Googlebot
MSNbot
Yahoo Slurp

[dartho]

Yep - works on PSPs

As for the search engines list, keep an eye on Who's Online for a few days with Display User Agent turned on and you'll soon find the active ones on your site