This module allows you to automatically switch to a different template just for iPhone or iPod users.

For all other users using standard browsers (e.g. Mozilla, IE, Safari), they will see your default template.

I designed this initially to serve different templates for iPhone/iPod users. But you can use this for other browsers too, for example, if you wish to serve different templates for iMac, Windows and Linux users.

if ($template = $this->get('setTemplate')) {

if ($template = $this->getUserState('setTemplate')) {

The module uses

$_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']

Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 2_0 like Mac OS X; en-us) 

AppleWebKit/525.18.1(KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1.1 Mobile/5A345 Safari/525.20

The program uses preg_match(), so you only need to use a string in $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'] that uniquely identifies the browser you want to identify.

The module allows you to specify up to 3 different browser user agents. For example, when you first installed the "Auto Template Switcher" module, the default settings are as follows:

Browser 1: iPhone

Browser 2: MSIE

Browser 3: Mozilla

For each browser, you specify the corresponding templates. The following shows the default settings when the module is first installed. The templates are those that come bundled with standard Joomla installation.

The default browser is used when there's no match against browser 1, browser 2 or browser 3.

Note that the auto-switching of the template is achieved through the use of module. The only purpose of the module is to detect the user agent and auto switch the template. It does not display anything. So if you set "Show Title" to "No", the module will be invisible.

• Allow you to detect up to three different types of browsers (user agents).
• Auto switching of templates based on the type of browsers.
• A default template for use with all other browsers.

1. Download and install the "Auto Template Switcher" module.
2. Make sure the module is published / enabled.
3. Select a module position where you want to place the module.
4. Edit the module in the Modules Manager.
5. For the field "Show Title", select "No" - so that the module becomes invisible.
6. Set the detect string (from $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']) for browser 1, 2 and 3.
7. Set the corresponding templates for each of the browswer.
8. Also specify a template for the default browsewr. This will be used when there's no match with browser 1, 2 or 3.
9. Click "Save" or "Apply".
10. As highlighted above, for those using Joomla 1.5, you need to change one line in the Joomla core for this to work. In file /includes/application.php in function getTemplate (around line 289), change the line

    if ($template = $this->get('setTemplate')) {

    to this one

    if ($template = $this->getUserState('setTemplate')) {