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.

[dartho]

what is your mobiles user agent string?

[steve1966]

just tried again and its working sorry for the bother

[Kingdombuilder]

I have use the code above and it works great for my site, thanks for the mobile redirect from the CMS page... This mod is the bomb!!

[BeefyBeefo]

Installed...works great on my Droid, not detecting my BlackBerry Tour.

Disabled for now, I will look for some input a little later. Thanks!

[BeefyBeefo]

Originally Posted by BeefyBeefo

Installed...works great on my Droid, not detecting my BlackBerry Tour.

Disabled for now, I will look for some input a little later. Thanks!

Nevermind, I was using a combination that wouldn't work. Thanks.

[el-q6ri]

for me its not working with 385

[Simon Lloyd]

Originally Posted by el-q6ri

for me its not working with 385

Just using this mod will not make any difference unless you are setting a mobile style that people using a mobile device will see, i'm using 3.8.5 with no problems, heres my mobile view http://www.thecodecage.com/forumz/index.php?styleid=19 and my normal view http://www.thecodecage.com/forumz/index.php?styleid=9 people viewing my site via mobile cannot view the normal view as the style is set.

Check out Dartho's two other threads https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=229241 and https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=229238 with these other things in place you will have no problem

[el-q6ri]

I already have them and was using the 3.7 and it was working ok then after the upgrade to 385 I couldent get it to work ?

I will try to reinstall the style

[Simon Lloyd]

Dartho, i have a problem in as much as ANY opera browser is seen as mobile im using the desktop version of Opera 10.52, is there anyway to detect whether its desktop or PC?

[dartho]

mm... Try adding "Windows NT" to the exclusions section?

You could of course add "opera" to this section, but then all the opera mobiles wouldn't get picked up.

Just don't add any strings with commas for slashes