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you are installing this on a vBulletin version higher than the current 'supported' version, and wish to get rid of the Out-of-Date Custom Templates Found!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

[Zaiaku]

had to do a little editing but works great and fast too, even my mods still worked with this one, thx

[tekguru]

Comments from my Modrators, all positive:

I noticed the changes when I jumped on this evening before seeing this post.

Because of this I have just voted in one of the Polls
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I can see the tags bit at the bottom of the posts now on the mobile portal!
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That is a great evolution! The search feature is excellent, and the post count/time of last post very useful.

IMHO for me I'd add in nike.stars mod as a standard....

[Daghis]

Originally Posted by dartho

IN the mean time see here for otehr ways to implement style changing ...

For now, I'm just telling people to go to mobile.domain as that avoids the issue entirely.

I did have someone report that this style doesn't handle nested quotes properly. I would imagine that fixing that problem is much more difficult.

Other than that, my users really like this over the previously installed mobile style. Thanks!

[XnaMe]

Hello! Why it told me Invalid File Specified when i'm trying to import?

[dartho]

XnaMe - you did import this via style manager as opposed to Products and Plugins?

BTW - I just noticed that this is the most installed 3.7.x style on vBulletin.org Thanks for the feedback and suggestions (and code snippets) to make it what it is. However - I really hope that when vBulletin 4.0 comes out thaey have builtin mobile support - the popularity of this rather rudimentary and novicely assembled style would have to go a long to way to proving the need and desire for a functional mobile forum is out there!

[BigDog56]

Seems to be a conflict with the MGC chat bot. From a WAP phone, you get a scripting error once you scroll to the chat box. And from opera when you try to post you get the dreaded "Security token" issue. when you try to post.

[Fireproof]

I'm loving the style - works great!!

One issue: my subforums do not show in the forum home view (list of forums). Can you make it display them here or is that not desired for those that have many subforums (I only have a few)?

Second request: how about a symbol or letter link to Quote a reply?

Thanks.

[dartho]

@Fireproof - You need to edit some templates to make this happen.

Edit the forumhome_forumbit_level?_post templates and add

<if condition="$show['subforums']"><div class="$forum[statusicon]titlebg">-- $forum[subforums]</div></if>

below

<div class="$forum[statusicon]windowbg">-&nbsp;<a href="forumdisplay.php?$session[sessionurl]f=$forum[forumid]">$forum[title]</a></div>

then edit forumhome_forumbit_level?_nopost templates and add

<if condition="$show['subforums']"><div class="$forum[statusicon]titlebg">-- $forum[subforums]</div></if>

below

<div class="windowbg">-&nbsp;<a href="forumdisplay.php?$session[sessionurl]f=$forum[forumid]">$forum[title]</a></div>

Then edit the subforumbit_nopost and subforumbit_post templates and replace the cntents with

<a href="forumdisplay.php?$session[sessionurl]f=$forum[forumid]">$forum[title]</a>

That should add the subforums listings - you probably only need to edit the level1 and level2 templates..

The reply link [rep] does quote by default - you want a quoting and non-quoting reply links?

[Fireproof]

Thanks for the help. I'll look into those edits.

Regarding the reply link, ignore my request. I had been replying just via the "quick reply" box at the bottom. I incorrectly assumed that [rep] did the same thing. I just tried it and see that it auto-quotes, so that is perfect!!

Thank you!

[Hornstar]

Originally Posted by dartho

@Hornstar - no moderation. You can delete threads/posts but thats about it. Style Chooser is in the Edit Options in UserCP (I just noticed that the title shows even of the user has no permissions to change styles). There are instructions on putting style chooser where you want back a page or two HERE

As for the copyright messages etc - the default uses half the screen so I entered in the minimum allowed. I however didn't want to modify the default phrases so I hard coded it. It's a pretty simple edit to make in the footer template. I'll look at making it an option to have default copyright messages or the reduced one in the future

Thanks. Is there any reason you don't make the style chooser default?

I just added inferno shoutbox into the skin, and it just stays on loading, is there a reason that modification wont work in this skin?