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

[dartho]

can;t remember if it is case sensative, but did you try 'iPad' and also ensured excpetions are enabled - also if you have more than ob exception, try iPad only; check no spaces between commas etc.

[BGObsession]

it's not case-sensitive, I'm just embarrassed to admit that I didn't have the exclusion option turned on. Details - they're a *****! Worked fine once I did that.

[BGObsession]

Dartho...I've got a user with a Nokia N900 who wants to be excluded... any idea what 'user string agent' I need to insert to exclude that model?

[dartho]

the UA is "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux armv7l; en-GB; rv:1.9.2a1pre) Gecko/20090928 Firefox/3.5 Maemo Browser 1.4.1.21 RX-51 N900", so i think N900 should do it or 1.9.2a1pre

It uses a Firefox browser, so you could also make all firefox browsers excluded by adding Firefox to teh exclusions?

[BGObsession]

N900 worked like a charm. Thanks!

[barakuda]

hi,

when i use this mode the other style can,'t work in firefox ?

[dartho]

Disable "Enable user defined device detection" and/or remove the word "Firefox" from the "Custom/User Defined Useragent String"

[barakuda]

Originally Posted by dartho

Disable "Enable user defined device detection" and/or remove the word "Firefox" from the "Custom/User Defined Useragent String"

Solution number 1-Disable "Enable user defined device detection" is work but number 2-remove the word "Firefox" from the "Custom/User Defined Useragent String" not work.
is this mod still work if i choose Disable "Enable user defined device detection"?

Thank you
Best Regard

[dartho]

Yes - the mod will still work

[cronjob78]

Any one experiencing issues with the iphone 4 for this mod?

Works a treat on android but on iphone it just shows the normal full view style and not the mobile specific style.

Suggestions appreciated.