style for mobile users (Page 1 of 2)

ok well I have a pretty big forum, 3,268,937 posts in the last two years and Ive had it up for almost 4 years. Anyway lots of people are using phones, droid, iphone, blackberry, hero, nexus1 etc and they all request a mobile version that autoswitches when you login like other forums and google, and youtube and everything else. IMO you guys should make it a priority to get something worked out. Id be willing to give you the feedback Ive received so far if it would help.

Ive made one they can switch in their profile, 480px wide so it works great on iphone or droid in the landscape position (horizontal) but its still way to wide for upright or 320 pixels for the iphone and droid eris (hero). What Id like to do is change the forum widths in thread view so where the user name, avatar, online indicator, ip etc are located I need to reduce the width so that the text area has more space, where can I do this? what file am I looking for? I did it once with views but I forgot where it was.

thanks

well all we have is name, title, 100px avatar, offline and IP for the admin. Id be cool if we could drop the avatar for mobile style and move the name, title, offline/online and IP above the post in someway, even if before the text. then have all text start on the very left.

somewhere around 20% use mobile or a combination with PC

Thx. That's pretty high and makes me more inclined to believe that by 2012-2013 50% of traffic could be from mobile devices.

I definitely think this warrants a strategic effort by PunBB Devs to find a solution for HTC, Blackberry and the iPads and netbooks of the future...

I'm also waiting for one with open source OS. Not keen on iPhone.
But it is cool, one friend trades shares from his iPhone while watching Champions League on his plasma... hehe

Any luck with this?

That left column takes up a HUGE amount of space which is mostly devoid of content. I wouldn't mind if the left column was gone altogether. If name and title was placed at the end of the post it would be all that I would need.

How do you do that? What script/code?

this is what you need http://detectmobilebrowsers.mobi/

@ephestione: thanks

[code=php]
<?php

$mobile_browser = '0';

if(preg_match('/(up.browser|up.link|mmp|symbian|smartphone|midp|wap|phone)/i', strtolower($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']))) {
    $mobile_browser++;
}

if((strpos(strtolower($_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT']),'application/vnd.wap.xhtml+xml')>0) or ((isset($_SERVER['HTTP_X_WAP_PROFILE']) or isset($_SERVER['HTTP_PROFILE'])))) {
    $mobile_browser++;
}   

$mobile_ua = strtolower(substr($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'],0,4));
$mobile_agents = array(
    'w3c ','acs-','alav','alca','amoi','audi','avan','benq','bird','blac',
    'blaz','brew','cell','cldc','cmd-','dang','doco','eric','hipt','inno',
    'ipaq','java','jigs','kddi','keji','leno','lg-c','lg-d','lg-g','lge-',
    'maui','maxo','midp','mits','mmef','mobi','mot-','moto','mwbp','nec-',
    'newt','noki','oper','palm','pana','pant','phil','play','port','prox',
    'qwap','sage','sams','sany','sch-','sec-','send','seri','sgh-','shar',
    'sie-','siem','smal','smar','sony','sph-','symb','t-mo','teli','tim-',
    'tosh','tsm-','upg1','upsi','vk-v','voda','wap-','wapa','wapi','wapp',
    'wapr','webc','winw','winw','xda','xda-');

if(in_array($mobile_ua,$mobile_agents)) {
    $mobile_browser++;
}

if (strpos(strtolower($_SERVER['ALL_HTTP']),'OperaMini')>0) {
    $mobile_browser++;
}

if (strpos(strtolower($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']),'windows')>0) {
    $mobile_browser=0;
}

if($mobile_browser>0) {
   // do something
}
else {
   // do something else
}   

?>
[/code]
source

Now I'm just wondering how to call style/Oxygen_mobile/ (instead of style/Oxygen/)   in that last part of the code
above.

Anyone know how to do that? And where to put the above code

PS: Even this site looks bad on my netbook :S !

If you ever find time to come up with some code for that , I think this might be something worth integrating in the core. Normally I'm not a fan of increasing the size of PunBB, but  the percentage numbers of users with mobile devices justify it, IMO. So very appreciated

the problem with running a any forum on a PDA is that entering the text is a pain. They are suitable for byte size text only. Thats why twitter is so good.
Best solution is to pop out and buy an IPAD which has a 1024x768 screen. Problem solved. You just need bigger pockets to put it in.

The user carlodin has just published this extension for use with HTC, iphone3 etc....
see more:

http://punbb.informer.com/forums/topic/ … ileswitch/