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

[MissKalunji]

question

The : Custom/User Defined Useragent String

how would i write it down?

example

Android
Opera Mini

Or do i have to put commas between them?

Thanks

[MissKalunji]

Something else i notice

once i enable this : Custom/User Defined Useragent String

it switches styles for EVERYTHING....Not just the lists that i put .....

Edit : it seems like it's because i wasn't precise enough with the String like i only put : Android...i twasn't working when i put HTC_Dream Mozilla...it worked fine...

[Biker_GA]

What have you selected for mobile phones in general? Remember, this FORCES mobile devices to use the particular style defined for your mobile style.

Now, if your PC users are also getting the mobile style, you need to check the mobile style settings and ensure you have the proper styles selected for your users.

[MissKalunji]

Yeah my mistake was i put a comma where i shouldn't have...and it messed up the entire settings

Thanks!

[ShackMaster]

Josh...

I just found a bug with the UserCP Mobile Style Detection. If the "Use Standard Style" is selected, which it is by default, the only the default style of the forum can be used for members.

For example: I have several styles that users can select from. The default is a fluid 100% style. An option is the fixed 1024px wide style. If I have "Use Standard Style" selected in the UserCP for the Mobile Style Detection, then changing the style from 100% fluid to any of the other fixed styles does not work. However, if I change the Mobile Style Detection to "Use Mobile Style", the other styles will work.

Reckon how we can fix this? Or maybe have it default to "Use Mobile Style" for all members, unless specifically selected.

Thanks!

[dartho]

SHack Master - look at this post: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=222 that may be the functionality you are after?

[ShackMaster]

So would I need the other mod by Josh if I use this?

[ShackMaster]

That does not fix my issue... actually has nothing to do with it.

I need to be able to make "Use Mobile Style" the default selection instead of "Use Standard Style".

[dartho]

You may want to contact Josh directly via PM as your issues are not to do with this modification.

The post I pointed you to has an altered product file which allows users of detected mobile devices to change to other styles if they wish and thus over-ride the detection/style enforcement.

This seems to be the functionality you were after?
eg:

• Mobile phone user logs on, gets mobile style.
• They can then choose to use any other style they want and will then be presented with that style from then on.
• They can also choose to switch back to the mobile style if they wish.
• This is device based, not user based so the same won't happen if they log on from a PC.

[Quantnet]

Yes, I'm after this modified auto detect/asign mod too