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

[CR_TurboGuy]

Originally Posted by SVTCobraLTD

I did that. Now where do the user's change the settings? I went into my usercp while in mobile and do not see it anywhere.

You'll need to visit your user control panel from a normal browser once to set that preference.

--JOsh

[lowlight]

I added "Pre" to the custom definitions list. You asked us to report it here, so you here go

[lowlight]

Problem is, putting "Pre" in the custom definitions causes all "Presto" browsers to be detected as mobile.

Is there any other way? This is the Palm Pre's useragent:

Mozilla/5.0 (webOS/1.4.0; U; en-CA) AppleWebKit/532.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/1.0 Safari/532.2 Pre/1.0

[lowlight]

Hmm I'll try "WebOS"

[gopherhockey]

For those interested in fixing this so iPads don't see the mobile version of your site, find this bit of code and simply add "iPad" too it.

This of course assumes you are making an exception for iPhones already. It would be nice to have this as a separate setting.

 $ipodbrowsers = array(
          "iPod",
          "iPad",
          "iPhone"
          );

[dartho]

given the iPad's screen resolution, you'd be best off adding it to the user agent exceptions section ...

[Zillo]

Originally Posted by aggiefan

any chance you might get this ready to use with the new skyfire browser.... just got my beta and skyfire is awesome but this script does not redirect me to our mobile site like pocket IE does.

i dont know what specifically skyfire identifies itself as but its not currently working with this script and i suspet more and more users will be going to this browser because its awesome.

Originally Posted by dartho

@aggiefan - Use your PDA to browse your site with Skyfire, then form your PC check who is online, turn on display user agent and check the User Agent string of your skyfire browser. You can post it here, or send me a PM. Although if it does indeed render pages that well, you might want to add it to the exceptions list!

Skyfire's user-agent is Firefox so there is no way to check who is using Skyfire just by checking the user-agent. Skyfire has its own HTTP headers: x_skyfire_phone , x_skyfire_screen and x_skyfire_version. That is the only way to check who is using Skyfire but I guess this script created by dartho does not detect any other header different than user-agent.

By the way Skyfire is probably the only way to watch flash videos and flash streaming on Windows Mobile and Symbian

[jansen_berlin]

This addon disables the manually Style choice in vb 3.8.5. Anybode else has the same problem?

[Wings69]

Originally Posted by dartho

given the iPad's screen resolution, you'd be best off adding it to the user agent exceptions section ...

What do I have to put there? I tried googling the Ipad user agent string and putting it there but it didn't work.

[dartho]

@Wings69 - add the word ipad to the user agent exceptions section.