Add-On Releases - 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.

Release Information
1.0.1 Initial release for 3.8 ported over from 3.7 version

THIS IS IDENTICAL CODE TO THE 3.7 RELEASE!

I only re-released as soooo many people ask the question "is this OK for 3.8" You do not need to upgrade if you already have installed! However - should there be any changes in the future, it will likely happen here.

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 & 3.8 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.

[hurricane_sh]

Fixed the problem, may be because I set the mobile style as 'not allow use selection'. Now I use your another mod to hide the mobile styple from the style chooser.

Thanks for your great work!

[EWGF]

Thank you, this works great!

[ma3ali.net]

Thank you.
It worked great on iPhone and Java based mobile phones..

However, it didn't work on HTC HD2 which is a windows based mobile. It has 2 browsers (IE and Opera). Both didn't work.

[ma3ali.net]

Originally Posted by ma3ali.net

Thank you.
It worked great on iPhone and Java based mobile phones..

However, it didn't work on HTC HD2 which is a windows based mobile. It has 2 browsers (IE and Opera). Both didn't work.

solved by adding HTC_Touch_HD_T8282 to the custom user agents.

[egclive]

will this be available for vb 4x

[doopz]

Hmm, when I login using my phone I go to the normal default style again.. any fix for this?

[Kingdombuilder]

This works great on 4.0.1 for me... I do however need alittle help. It does not show the home screen well bet shows the forum awesome. Is there a way in the detection to get it to go straight to the forum with out fist going to the home page.

In the settings I set the home page as the forum so it works great as far as once the home link is hit. I just need theat little extra whatever to get me to the forum page when it first load up. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Once this is solved it can be set to 4.0.1 mod as well...

By the way this is a great mod...

[dartho]

what is your current default page - vBulletin CMS, vBAdvanced, Custom?

[Kingdombuilder]

Originally Posted by dartho

what is your current default page - vBulletin CMS, vBAdvanced, Custom?

Well it was the CMS page, but i redirected it to the forum page from my site control panel. The only thing is that all visitors are bypassing the front CMS page. I just want the mobile surfers to by pass. If there is an adjust that I can make then i can lift the redirectand allow things to take their course. I'm truly grateful for your help bruh, thank you...

[dartho]

Try this:

Edit the vbcms_page template in the mobile style and replace

{vb:raw toolbar}
<div class="vbcms_content">
{vb:raw layout}
</div>

with something like

<div class="vbcms_content">
Home page unavailable in mobile view, click <a href="forum.php">HERE</a> to view forums.
</div>