WAP / Pocket PC skin: Mobile Alabama

[sross]

whoa, also noticed after installing this style that some of my pages went screwy, so I rebooted, went back to my site and they were still screwey, for eample the search page was using the pda style!? So in a panic I deleted the pda style and things went back to normal, any idea? I didn't have the pda style set to default or anything like that either. thanks!

[sross]

sorry for another post, this style has screwed up the style in my photopost integration! ugh! i have no idea how this could have happened, the style was added as a 'new style' stupified, will try to fix it

[Pugzly]

I think building some autodetection into this is the best solution. Automatically redirect PDAs to that style...

[sross]

any idea why this happened to my gallery after trying to add the style and remove the style? now my photopost gallery is screwed up

[vBMechanic]

Hi Sross, I think you have greater problems than just skin installation / removal. Perhaps some corrupt tables? Have you run a check / repair? A vB tech can correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think installing or uninstalling an XML skin file could do this. Especially considering that this is probably the simplest skin out there; most of the templates are stripped down to almost nothing.

>>I think building some autodetection into this is the best solution. Automatically redirect PDAs to that style...

I posted the code for that somewhere else; let me find it.... I put this in global.php but I believe it can go in the php_include template as well. No, now that I think about it, it might be too late in that template.. I put it in global right below:

else
  {
      // no style specified - use default
      $styleid = $vboptions['styleid'];
  } 

ADD:

  // BROWSER DETECT
  
  $browsers = array(
      "Windows CE",
      "WebTV",
      "AvantGo",
      "Blazer",
      "PalmOS",
      "lynx",
      "Go.Web",
      "Elaine",
      "ProxiNet",
      "ChaiFarer",
      "Digital Paths",
      "UP.Browser",
      "Mazingo",
      "Mobile",
      "T68",
      "Syncalot",
      "NetFront",
      "Danger",
      "Symbian",
      "Nokia",
      "Xiino",
      "AU-MIC",
      "EPOC",
      "BlackBerry",
      "Wireless",
      "Handheld"
      );
  
  if(preg_match('/('.implode('|', $browsers).')/i', $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'], $match))
  {
      $mobile=1;
  }
  else if (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_UA_OS']))
  {
      if (strstr($_SERVER['HTTP_UA_OS'],"POCKET PC") !== false)
      {
          $mobile=1;
      }
  }
  else
  {
      $mobile=0;
  }
  
  if ($mobile==1)
  {
      //echo "You are on a mobile device!";
      $styleid='8';
  } 

Change the styleid='8' to whatever your PDA style is.

[sross]

"Hi Sross, I think you have greater problems than just skin installation / removal. Perhaps some corrupt tables? Have you run a check / repair? A vB tech can correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think installing or uninstalling an XML skin file could do this. Especially considering that this is probably the simplest skin out there; most of the templates are stripped down to almost nothing."

Hi, I tried a repair and optimize and no luck. I really have no idea what has caused it. I know for certain all I did was:

upload the template as a 'new template'
then went to the forum style id of the new template to look at it.
I then went to my gallery page and it was white
I then went back to the forum and it seemed ok, went to my forum search page and it was stripped down as if it were the mobile design
I then deleted the design, my forum search page went back to normal, I went to the gallery page and now it's all hosed for some reason. http://www.apug.org/gallery

[pete_brady]

http://www.thumped.com/bbs/?styleid=26

Should be popular with the 9-5 crowd

[Erwin]

Well done mate. Thanks for sharing.

[Silver_2000]

Does this work with Blackberrys ? Has anyone tested it ?

The BB browser seems to choke on PHP....
( and on java script )

Doug

[Silver_2000]

Well I added the Style and uploaded the auto select code - It all seems to work great on the blackberry ... One comment though - The blackberry was redirected to the PDA style automatically BUT the style NAME at the bottom still shows my default Style choice - I guess that is to make sure that when I log in with a PC I still get the right style ??
Froum is at http://www.talonclub.com/forum/index.php?styleid=22

Thanks for the effort - works great -

Doug

[Pugzly]

Does this work with Blackberrys ? Has anyone tested it ?

The BB browser seems to choke on PHP....
( and on java script )

Doug

How can a browser choke on server side scripting? It never sees it!

[vBMechanic]

It was tested on a Blackberry but not sure which model.

[drumsy]

Will this skin work well for cell phones as well?

[dadymac]

while the skin worked nicely, I couldnt load the page on my sony ericsson t610 (with tmobile), i used the global.php thingy too. The archives work well too as a way view a forum with cell phones.

[pete_brady]

Does this work with Blackberrys ? Has anyone tested it ?

The BB browser seems to choke on PHP....
( and on java script )

Doug

works just great on my 7230 Blackberry.

it's pretty fantastic, actually.