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

[Sooner95]

Did all that, still nadda..even tried another "lite" style and it still goes to my default.

[GCSkye]

Originally Posted by Sooner95

Did all that, still nadda..even tried another "lite" style and it still goes to my default.

Did you edit it in your vbulletin options to select the new style as the mobile default?

[dartho]

If I spoof my useragent string to TELECA-/2.0 (BREW 3.1.5; U; EN-US;SAMSUNG; SPH-M800; Teleca/Q05A/INT) MMP/2.0 Profile/MIDP-2.1 Configuration/CLDC-1.1 and visit your site, I get your mobile style

[Sooner95]

GC- Yes, that was done..

dartho. well if it works then it works..not much else I can say. I have notcied that it works more often using Opera Mini, than anything else..so I am just going to write it off as a crappy phone browser.

Appreciate the time..

[Patrickftw]

Is it compatible with vBulletin 3.8.x? Because I can't seem to get it to work.

[Biker_GA]

Running it on 3.8.1 and it works wonderfully.

[Sooner95]

Just to confirm..seems I am the only one that has an issue..my other members state it works good..so that's enough for me..

Thanks again..

on 3.8.2

[jgruberman]

PROBLEM:

Installed... all looks good until I go to hit submit on a reply to a thread and I get:

Your submission could not be processed because a security token was missing or mismatched.

If this occurred unexpectedly, please inform the administrator and describe the action you performed before you receved this error.

SOLUTION:

In the SHOWTHREAD template in your mobile style, find:

<input type="hidden" name="s" value="$session[sessionhash]" />

Directly Below, ADD:

<input type="hidden" name="securitytoken" value="$bbuserinfo[securitytoken]" />

[dartho]

Thanks, but that is a problem (and solution) with the style you have installed - nothing to do with this add-on.

[dancue]

This is great. Works well with 3.8.

Now. How do I get it to go directly to index.php instead of the vbadvanced page?