Has anyone developed either a skin/template or a special set of pages that provide for easy navigation from a Palm/Smartphone/PocketPC browser? I have a Treo 600, and would really like to be able to browse for new posts on our message board (www.pdga.com/msgboard/ubbthreads.php).<br /><br />Sincerely,<br />Theo Pozzy<br />PDGA Commissioner and Pdga.com Webmaster

<img src="http://www.ubbdev.com/forum/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" /> <br /><br />Would be an interesting project - probably a variation on the print page: <br />http://www.ubbdev.com/forum/printthread.php/Cat/0/Board/templates/main/121018/type/thread<br /><br />And a combo with the info found here: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/pocket/

I have a CSS style on my site with no graphics for mobile users, but I've never done a template layout for small screens. The only problem is detecting the browser that is being used, and then calling a different style sheet in the showflat and showthreaded sripts based on the results (the last part is easy: I do it now for my article templates). It would be better if it can be automatic, so that first time mobile users automaticly get a site formatted for a small screen...<br /><br />Once I finish the Facelift mod I'm working on I'll look inot doing this one -it's got a lot of "geek factor" <img src="http://www.ubbdev.com/forum/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

I think this would be cool too.<br /><br />Detecting the browser wouldn't be that tricky... you could just embed a little code in ubbt_header.tmpl:<br /><br />if ($HTTP_USER_AGENT == "mobilebrowser"){<br />echo "<link rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"mobilestyle.css\">";<br />} else {<br />echo "<link rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"$stylesheet\">";<br />}<br /><br />If you wanted to use entirely different templates and not just stylesheets, it's a little tricker but not much (I did this on an old version of UBB). If I can help let me know.<br /><br />-Y

Share <img src="http://www.ubbdev.com/forum/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> I'll help if possible <img src="http://www.ubbdev.com/forum/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

In ubbt.inc.php, find the line: <br /> <br />// -------------------- <br />// set the style sheet <br /> $stylesheet = "{$config['styledir']}/$fstyle.css"; <br /> <br />Under this you can add: <br /> <br />if ($fstyle == "pdacss"){ <br /> $tempstyle = "pdatemplate"; <br />} <br /> <br />Now if someone selects the style pdacss.css, UBB will pull all the templates from /templates/pdatemplate instead of /templates/default. With a little more code, it could auto-select the PDA style if it detects that the user is on a non-standard browser. However I'm not sure how reliable that would be on all devices. <br /> <br />In this manner it's possible to create a totally stripped down layout and still have the control which templates give you (unlike a solution involving the print thread mechanism). <br /> <br />As far as creating the actual stylesheet and templates... I have my hands a bit full with upgrades on my own site at the moment but I might take that on at some time in the future if someone doesn't get to it first <img src="http://www.ubbdev.com/forum/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />. <br /> <br />-Y

Excellent idea!!! <img src="http://www.ubbdev.com/forum/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" /><br /><br />I too will look into this one when I get the time...