Making phpBB3 Mobile Compatible

dkgibson · Post by **dkgibson** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 9:42 pm

Alighieri wrote:mysql_real_escape_string()

Yeah, thought of mentioning that, but then I would probably want to mention that each DB apparently has a specific call to do essentially the same thing. You should use "mysql_real_escape_string()" on MySQL, "pg_escape_string()" on PostgreSQL, and only if the PHP library for someone's DB doesn't have an equivalent call, should you use "addslashes()".

luccrook · Post by **luccrook** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 10:15 pm

This is a great idea. Do you have more detailed instructions on how a phpBB novice could do this?

ZoMtEc · Post by **ZoMtEc** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 10:11 am

take a look @ http://wurfl.sourceforge.net/php/ wurfl is a large xml with lots of device specific informations...

$myDevice->GetDeviceCapabilitiesFromAgent($_SERVER["HTTP_USER_AGENT"]);
$myDevice->is_wireless_device
...

but i would prefer to use an xhtml wap theme. it is possible to select this wap theme in style.php when a mobile phone is detected without causing any performance problems, isn't it? perhaps this would cause some cache problems?!

Jaztar · Post by **Jaztar** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 2:35 pm

Is this solution available for phpBB2?

If not, can some please guide me in the right direction, without having to switch to phpBB3.

Alighieri · Post by **Alighieri** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 7:47 pm

Yes, you can implement a similar solution for phpBB2, just add a condition around the stylesheet includes that only returns true if it is not a mobile device. I suggest looking through the overall_header.tpl file and the includes/page_header.php file.

Has anyone created a style that is specifically geared for mobile devices? I'd like to put one up on a subdomain, like m.mysite.com - just copy in a config.php file from my official board, and replace the style with the mobile style.

mikechreptak · Post by **mikechreptak** » Thu Mar 27, 2008 7:05 pm

I'm new to modding phpBB without following instructions. I tried sticking the code in the 1st post in style.php and wrapping everything else in an IF check, but it didn't have any effect. Where is style.php called from?

James Stockwell · Post by **James Stockwell** » Thu Apr 17, 2008 9:33 pm

Im new to phpbb and i have made a style that fits perfectly to my phone is there anyway of making it so that it will put me thought to a different style?, or workout that if i go to mobile.******.co.uk then it will put me thought to a different style?

thanks

rwbronco · Post by **rwbronco** » Mon Apr 21, 2008 3:58 pm

bump. I'd really like to have it detect mobile users and change styles accordingly or just remove all formatting and let it see what the phone wants to do with it.

Pony99CA · Post by **Pony99CA** » Mon Apr 28, 2008 10:00 am

rwbronco wrote:bump. I'd really like to have it detect mobile users and change styles accordingly or just remove all formatting and let it see what the phone wants to do with it.

Either create a JavaScript browser detection function that writes the template/style out or, if your template is simple enough, just try using the CSS Handheld media support.

Steve

kozen · Post by **kozen** » Sat May 24, 2008 7:00 am

Hey guys,

did someone created something convenient that can be used for mobile browsers?

I can't understand why this is not part of phpBB anyway - it must be a pretty highly requested feature

NMI · Post by **NMI** » Sun May 25, 2008 5:05 am

My blackberry 8700 handles phpbb3 forums without a problem. No special coding needed. for me that is

Alighieri · Post by **Alighieri** » Tue May 27, 2008 6:20 pm

For mobile devices, I created a special subdomain for our site with its own installation of phpBB3 (minus the customizations), and then commented out all of the conditions in styles.php (so no stylesheet is generated).

For browsers that need no special configuration (real mobile browsers), they can continue to access the full version of the site (since you do all your customizations in standards-based XHTML+CSS, right?), while older non-standard browsers (WAP, etc.) can point their browsers to our mobile subdomain.

freeworld2000 · Post by **freeworld2000** » Wed Jun 04, 2008 4:05 am

With a subdomain for mobile devices, does that mean user needs 2 login id, 1 for mobile domain and the other for full version? Does that also mean when you are in mobile version domain, you can't see posts that are in full version domain?

Abaweet69 · Post by **Abaweet69** » Wed Jun 04, 2008 8:42 pm

No because you're using the same database.

newsbee · Post by **newsbee** » Sun Jul 27, 2008 7:58 am

For version 2 there was a subLite version that didn't show any images inside messages or in signatures ond avatars, there also was a mobile version too.

It seems no one in the phpbb3 community need these features. It is unfortunate because many people around the world still use slow internet or cellphones to access forums and it would be really good to have such options.