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

[Tourmeister]

Originally Posted by student4ever

I'm new to vB and just installed v3.8.1. Already had a couple people request this for the site. Any word on updating it for v3.8?

thanks!

Working perfect for me on 3.8.1.

www.twtex.com

[student4ever]

Originally Posted by Tourmeister

Working perfect for me on 3.8.1.

www.twtex.com

thanks - sounds like it's worth installing

[roymogg]

Dartho,

The mod went in a treat no problems at all - tweaked the vbadvanced template just to remove the side blocks rather than completely removing as i wish to use some of the modules like the calendar. Other than that this was a easy hack.

One small issue I found is it is possible to get at the forum default template via the usecp panel and the search cloud links. Is there some mod I must do to overcome this or is it going through the relevant templates and editing them out?

great mod installed and nominated

RoyMogg

www.bizface.co.uk

[dartho]

when using this add-on it shouldn't be possible to change to any other style ... ?

[GCSkye]

Originally Posted by dartho

when using this add-on it shouldn't be possible to change to any other style ... ?

I think it should be. My members are having an issue with their devices changing to the mobile skin and they can't switch to anything else.

Site: EverCube.Net, Currently on 3.8.1

Is it possible to have the mobile detection only detect if they are mobile when they first visit on there device?

[Biker_GA]

If your users are using the mobile style, it shouldn't be possible to change the style. That's by design. Now if they're logging in via mobile, and later, when logging in via the PC they're still getting the mobile style, there's a setting that isn't quite right.

[GCSkye]

Originally Posted by Biker_GA

If your users are using the mobile style, it shouldn't be possible to change the style. That's by design. Now if they're logging in via mobile, and later, when logging in via the PC they're still getting the mobile style, there's a setting that isn't quite right.

People have mobile devices that can handle nicer skins. By choose my members don't all want the mobile skin when on a mobile device. Complaints have surfaced over this. I'm using a custom made Mobile skin and my members have a choose to change.

Regardless of the matter, you provided no help. Troll another question.

Still looking for help on this matter.

[Biker_GA]

Learn to read...... All I stated was this style was automatically assigned to mobile devices and usually can not be changed. Your troll comment was neither warranted or appreciated. It also states as part of the description for this modification:

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.

You can create your own mobile style and then specify that style as the default.

You can also specify a different style for Windows CE and iPhone users.

However, allowing users to specify the style they wish to use via a mobile device is not a feature of this package.

[GCSkye]

I'm looking for someone that knows how to get this to only detect there first visit instead of constantly assigning them to mobile skin. Basically, it will put them on the mobile skin - but if they wish they can switch skins without it forcing them back onto it.

One time detection.


Example: I have opera mobile users. Some want to use the default skin and some can't handle it on there mobile so they prefer the mobile skin. If needed, I want them to be able to change skins.

Sorry if I was unclear at first, I understand what this mod does. I have it successfully set up.

EverCube.net

[dartho]

Whilst it's not what I wrote this addon for, as I don't allow user to change styles at all (I like to have a pretty good idea how things look to visitors to my site and forcing fixed styles on them achieves this), it could probably be done easy enough...