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

[dartho]

No - not really depending on what you are trying to do you'd likely need to use plugins.

However, assuming they are viewing your site via a mobile device using a mobile style, you can simply edit the template in the mobile style.

[gcxboxps]

Thanks, this works perfectly on 3.8.2

[Trana]

I used the code listed to forward from the VBA adv_portal template to the forum home. I hit the forum home, no problem, but when I click on a forum I am redirected back to the original forwarder page (the VBA template).

Any idea what I am missing?

[nureeves]

help...
i have enabled this product, and i also have installed its mobile style
but default style on PC user change to mobile style ... how i could fix this?

thanks

[dartho]

I'm guessing you have vbadvanced and your forums integrated? I've never done this before, there's probably a vbadvanced plugin you could edit to get around it. I'll *try* and have a look into it...

[Blackheart_72]

Installed and takes mobile users to the mobile skin but when they post and hit submit it clears the text area and does not post.

Cheers

[Trana]

Originally Posted by dartho

I'm guessing you have vbadvanced and your forums integrated? I've never done this before, there's probably a vbadvanced plugin you could edit to get around it. I'll *try* and have a look into it...

No, the CMPS page is not integrated with the site. It is in a separate directory.

[Aexo]

hello

I'd like that when you enter to forum with a mobile, the forum ask you what template do you like to use.
Is it posible?

[Xeye]

Thanks dartho, it works great.

Originally Posted by Aexo

hello

I'd like that when you enter to forum with a mobile, the forum ask you what template do you like to use.
Is it posible?

It would be great if we can let members to choose between few mobile styles, I wish to see it in next version <3

[Megatr0n]

Originally Posted by dartho

OK - try the attached. Basically, if a user has used the style chooser (ie. manually chosen a style), it won't override their choice.

example 1 - user visits via iPhone for first time, they get presented with iPhone skin as configured. If they change teh style to default skin, all visits from here on in will present them with default skin or what ever style they manually choose from then on

example 2 - users visits with small screen old nokia phone, they get presented with mopbile skin as configured. If they change the style to defualt skin, all visits from then on will present them with teh default skin. If their browser can't handle it and they can;t get back to the style chooser. they will not be able to view your site properly again.

proviso's - browser must accept cookeis for this to work (clearing browers cookies will reset)

dartho,

I installed this plugin but when I connect from my phone I don't see the option anywhere on the mobile skin to change the skin? I've cleared the cookies and everything but nada.