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

[Kottonmouth801]

dartho you rule.....!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So far so good....

I will PM... I will be sending donation in near future for your help and time.

Thanks....



:up::up::up::up::up::up:

[brettxw]

Dartho, first I have to say that you are the ONLY "coder/developer" that I have installed that provides quick help. Thank you.

My question. After installing this, when viewing www.BlackberryOS.com on mobile, it still shows my main page with vbadvanced/CMPS. When I view www.BlackberryOS.com/forums/ it works properly. Is there any way I can get it to work properly with the MAIN site url and not show vbadvanced?

[dartho]

Thanks brett,

See here: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...71#post1535871 for a vbadvanced option.

You could also edit your vbadvanced templates and try tp make them more mobile friendly. If you just want to show say news and latest threads, it wouldn;t be too hard to do

[brettxw]

Hi Dartho,

I have replaced the information with what you had in that post to redirect them, when viewing the main page of the site, it does not automatically redirect them, it just stays on that page where it says "click ehre if you are not automatically redirected"...

[brettxw]

Dartho,

I'm no genius or anything BUT, if I edit that adv portal template, I can insert anything I want in there so that could now be my main mobile site then link off to the forums from there.

Also, can I set it so a certain browser that is being used by a blackberry device, ie) Opera 5 that will load the regular site? and not be forced to view the mobile site?

[dartho]

I'm no genius or anything BUT, if I edit that adv portal template, I can insert anything I want in there so that could now be my main mobile site then link off to the forums from there.

Correct.

Also, can I set it so a certain browser that is being used by a blackberry device, ie) Opera 5 that will load the regular site? and not be forced to view the mobile site?

Just add the useragent for opera5 to the exceptions section then it won;t be detected as a mobile

[brettxw]

With the adding opera5 to the useragant at the bottom, this will make it so they will not be detected as a mobile site, right? and view the site normally..I added opera5 to that section and they still see the main screen that says "click here if you have not been redirected". If I change it to just opera, will that do change it to all opera users?

[dartho]

you need to find the user agent string for opera 5 and add that.

[SteveLV702]

any idea when this will be 2.8.4 compatible as I installed it but its not working for me...

[maxicep]

works on 3.8.2

thx