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')) {
    

User reviews   Average user ratings:    4.5   (from 6 users)

1. Wayne Geddings
   September 18, 2008 11:07pm
   Possible?
   

   The perfect extension would be a plugin that sent any mobile visitor to the designated Home Mobile page and adjusted for the browser (IE, Firefox, Google Chrome, etc.

2. kksou
   September 24, 2008 12:44am
   
   

   Hi Wayne,
   
   Please try the latest version v1.01 (for Joomla 1.0) and v1.51 (for Joomla 1.5).
   
   I've incorporated this feature into the new version i.e. you can now specify the inital designated page that will be displayed when a template-switch occurs
   
   Regards,
   /kksou

3. dave
   September 27, 2008 8:00am
   not working for me
   

   I use jomla 1 , after 2 hours can't manage to make it work, install was fine, module is publish, can't find why it's not working www.api4.me/joomla/ thanks for helping

4. dave
   September 27, 2008 8:37am
   worse on another site
   

   If I publish the module, the site doesn't work at all anymore

5. kksou
   September 27, 2008 9:43am
   
   

   What's the error message that you get? Please provide some details so that we have some clues as to what might have happened.
   
   1. Can you please try on a fresh install of Joomla first. Did it work?
   
   Try this first so that at least you'll know if it works on your machine.
   
   2. If (1) works, try it on your other site that you said didn't work. Please list the entries that you've entered in the parameters page. e.g. user_agent1=?, template1=?, user_agent2=?, template2=?, etc. Please also list the names of the folders in the folder /templates
   
   Regards,
   /kksou

6. dave
   September 28, 2008 12:45am
   about the site
   

   thanks for the answer
   here it is http://www.api4.me/joomla/switcher.jpg
   this was done on a fresh install of joomla, i don't have any error message, the template just doesnt switch on IE,fox or Iphone
   I will try reinstalling a new version of joomla
   thanks for the help

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