Add-On Releases - VB4 - Mobile Phone / iPhone / PDA Detection and Style Assignment

This is a direct port from my 3.x versions which detects most mobile phones, iPhones, PDAs and other mobile browsing devices and automatically presents the user with a specific vBulletin style.

The one significant addition over previous versions is that a user can now over-ride the style assignment - more information in the notes section.

This will probably work with previous versions of vBulletin (but untested)

What can it do?Detects most mobile phones and presents the user with a specific style. 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
0.5 Uninstall previous versions
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, 3.6 or 3.7 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.

See HERE for a lightweight vBulletin 4 style to go along with this addon

Version Control
1.0.0 - Initial Release
1.0.1 - Add option to enable/disable overriding style assignment.

Notes
Previous versions of this mod have forced a mobile device to a specific style, this is no longer the case! If a user now follows a link which changes the style (using a URL parameter of "styleid=xx") they will then be given that style for the rest of their session. If they close their browser and reload your site, they will then be detected again. Cookies must be enabled on the users browser for overriding detection to work

To Do

• Add an option for users to be able to permanently NOT be detected as a mobile device or explicitly use a specified style.
• Add more devices to detection
• [S]Add option to disable override globally[/S]

[rughis]

Excellent mod. It works without any problem on my 4.0.8 vBulletin site.

Thank you!

[SnapOff Racing]

Originally Posted by dartho

Did you try it? As mentioned in teh first post, it probably will work

Yeah I tried it on VB 3.8.6 & 3.8.7b1 and it doesn't work at all. I even uninstalled the 3.8.6 version of this mod FIRST which was working just fine. Then I installed this version and it wasn't having any affect whatsoever. I was testing with my iPhone 4.

[dartho]

try again , but clear cookies first. If you have manually chosen a style at any time, you have essentially overridden autodetection

[Joxpa]

worked 1 time, after didnt worked again. also not using this:

http://www.testiphone.com/
http://emulator.mtld.mobi/emulator.php

[vidan]

this mod work with vb4.1? can someone confirm it?
thanks

[OldSchoolDSL]

Uninstalled.

[BadgerDog]

Installed with thanks ...

I'm not sure how to test it?

Can someone with a PDA access our site and let me know if it works and I have it set up right? Thanks ...

Also, I have a 56kb dial-up users who complain the site is slow for them using a regular PC and browser, so I was wondering if this mod could be adapted to recognize a 56kb dial-up user and automatically present Dartho's great "Lightweight Style"?

I know our Google Analytics code reads data from someplace and shows me analysis of type of connect speeds used when accessing our site, so I think it's possible?

Regards,
Doug

[el diablo]

Not working for 4.1

[smnet]

Originally Posted by el diablo

Not working for 4.1

Can you be a little more specific?

Does it break your board, work partially? Error messages?

[rowedf]

My mobile phone isn't detecting it and my board is on 4.1 as well. I'm using an HTC EVO 4 that is running Android 2.2