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you are installing this on a vBulletin version higher than the current 'supported' version, and wish to get rid of the Out-of-Date Custom Templates Found!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

[thompson]

looks very good. will try this soon.

[vbreal]

Originally Posted by dartho

Apologies - you haven;t done any thing wrong - that's the style, although somewhat reduced in size.

Judging by the fact that the entire forum home is visible on the one screen, I'd guess your iPhone is scaling the page down to make it fit, where it really shouldn't need to. I don;t have an iPhone so can't test but is there an option to automatically scale pages or something similar?

Have you checked ElForros' iPhone style (there's a link to it in the add-on description above) which is designed for specifically for iPhones. It's not well supported, and a bit heavy on bandwidth usage, but looks good.

[Edit: the iPhone may be reducing the page size as no width is set - I'll look into optionally setting the width of the page and see if that looks better]

thanks for the reply.

it not being supported is the problem. its a great theme but there are a few things about it that urk me like when u make a new thread or reply it shows the WYSIWYG. i like how urs doesn't.

[dartho]

@vbreal:

I think you may be able to set the page width of your forums in this style for iPhones with 2 template edits.

1. Edit the header template, and add the following at the very beginning:

<script type="text/javascript">
    if (navigator.userAgent.indexOf('iPhone') != -1) {
        document.write("<div style=\"width:320px\">")
    }
</script>

set the 320px to be the width of an iPhone which I think is 320.

2. Edit the footer template and add the following at the very end:

<script type="text/javascript">
    if (navigator.userAgent.indexOf('iPhone') != -1) {
        document.write("</div>")
    }
</script>

3. This is just for testing, please let me know if that resolves things for you. If so I should be able to work a better way of implementing it.

Thanks

[dartho]

@tekguru

Originally Posted by tekguru

One small but annoying change in the new Mobile Style is that text typed into the quick reply box no longer word wraps to the screen width; most of the time this is OK but if you need to go back up the posts to check something in the thread, it takes ages to get back to where you were because the standard SIP doesn't have a 'End' or "Home' keys

Try editing the SHOWTREAD template and change this line:

<textarea name="message" rows="10" cols="30" style="height:100px;width:100%" tabindex="1">

to

<textarea wrap="virtual" name="message" rows="10" cols="30" style="height:100px;width:100%" tabindex="1">

Let me know the results so I can include it in a future release.

Thanks

[MissKalunji]

some of my thread images don't show is it possible to add thumbnail of images?

Thanks

[dartho]

** UPDATED to version 0.0.10, now fully phrased and a few changes added to make the Extend and Custiomize Mobile Style product do a bit more

[dartho]

Download 0.0.10 again if you have already before this post - minor last second change! :redface:

@MissKalunji - thumb nailing would be a whole other product, sorry ...

[Derekclarke]

Just downloaded the 0.0.10 file and tried to import it but says Invalid File Specified

I am running Latest VB version 3.7.2 Patch Level 1

any ideas?

[dartho]

I just imported this style downloaded from here again - no issues here... try again and see how you go...

[Fireproof]

Can we still use the CSS file we've been using, since I've made some changes to that? And just import only the style file?