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Auto Template Switcher for iPhone

Written by kksou

Monday, 01 September 2008

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.

Important for Joomla 1.5 users !!!

You need to change one line in the Joomla core for this to work.

In file /includes/application.php in function getTemplate (around line 281), change the line

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

to this one

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

Latest Version

v1.01 (for Joomla 1.0) and v1.51 (for Joomla 1.5)
Released September 23, 2008

In addition to switching template on different user agents, you can now also specify the inital designated page that will be displayed when a template-switch occurs. For example, you can automatically redirect an iPhone user to a dedicated iPhone home page when he or she comes to your site.

You can specify different url page corresponding to each template and user agent in the parameters page of the Module Manager.

Note that a redirect to the designated page will only occur when there's a template switch. If there's no swtich of template, there will be no redirect to the page.

Thanks to Wayne Geddings for suggesting the above enhancement.

How it works?

The module uses

$_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']

to detect user's browser. For example, the value returned by iPhone is:

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.

Browser	Joomla 1.0	Joomla 1.5
browser1 = iPhone	template1 = madeyourweb	template1 = beez
browser2 = MSIE	template2 = madeyourweb	template1 = beez
browser3 = Mozilla	template3 = rhuk_solarflare_ii	template1 = rhuk_milkyway
default browser	template = rhuk_solarflare_ii	template = rhuk_milkyway

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.

Unique Features

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.

Download

Note: Due to the recent "warning" from my host that my site's CPU usage is too high, I have to resort to a more primitive method of downloading that does not take up much CPU resource. (The original AJAX version uses too much CPU and mysql resources.) As javascript is used, you have to enable javascript to download the files. Thank you for your understanding.

Joomla 1.0.x: autotemplateswitcher_v1.01.zip
Joomla 1.5.x: autotemplateswitcher_v1.51.zip

How to install

Download and install the "Auto Template Switcher" module.

Make sure the module is published / enabled.

Select a module position where you want to place the module.

Edit the module in the Modules Manager.

For the field "Show Title", select "No" - so that the module becomes invisible.

Set the detect string (from $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']) for browser 1, 2 and 3.

Set the corresponding templates for each of the browswer.

Also specify a template for the default browsewr. This will be used when there's no match with browser 1, 2 or 3.

Click "Save" or "Apply".

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:

3.5 (from 14 users)

Wayne Geddings
September 18, 2008 10:07pm
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.
kksou
September 23, 2008 11:44pm

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
dave
September 27, 2008 7:00am
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
dave
September 27, 2008 7:37am
worse on another site
If I publish the module, the site doesn't work at all anymore
kksou
September 27, 2008 8:43am

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
dave
September 27, 2008 11:45pm
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
ste
November 25, 2008 8:25am
Download Problem
Very Interested in this but click download and states 'invalid link'
ste
November 25, 2008 10:25am
Download Link
Download Link - now working, Thanks.
Andik Morgenstern
December 19, 2008 10:53pm

Sorry I tried installing this, however it only showed my iPhone template to ALL browsers. I un-installed it and now I have lost my default template altogether. My site is now only showing NO template and I can't get it back! Any ideas?
Vlado
March 27, 2009 3:56am
Auto Template Switcher screw up my template
I was really exited when I found this module so I install it on my website (joomla 1.5) and it worked great, but when I tried to browse around the site on my computer I found out that template is broken. My template has 4 colors styles and I choose to show color style #2(orange), when I open the site on my comp it shows color #2 but when any link is clicked template is changed to style #1(red default). that happens when search site is used only. I tried to uninstall module but template left broken. I tried also to install module on subdomain fresh joomla installed only Auto Template Switcher module installed, same template installed and the same problem occurred.
I also found out when I turn SEO Off + .htaccess into htaccess.txt everything works great.
How can I solve this? this all started after Auto Template Switcher installation
Tony
May 31, 2009 5:16pm
Accessing a specific page
I've installed and have a question. From an iPhone, I'd like to goto a specific page on my website instead of the home page. So, my URL looks like "www.site.com/iphone-app2". The homepage keeps coming up. Is there a setting or a fix for this? Can I do this?

Thanks.
Alex Albers
August 17, 2009 7:17am
Only iPhone template works
Great idea to build a module for iPhone users. Unfortnunately when I edit the application.php (in includes folder), the normal browsers become blank (text only) because they are without a template. Only the iPhone browser assigned a template to itself.

So I can't use it. :-(
Antonin Delboy
August 25, 2009 4:41am
Same problem
Iphone browser detection works but other browthers get blank template instead of the specified one...
using joomla 1.5.14(hacked in application.php) + ThemeForest NewsPressed mobile iphone template + a yootheme one for other browsers
O
August 31, 2009 10:29am
Home page not set (URL1, 2, 3)
Hi KKSOU,

There seems to be a problem with setting the default page using the URL field. Despite setting this URL, I keep having the default homepage of my website being displayed.
I have tried emlptying the cahe but it does not solve the problem.
Do you have any clue ?

Thanks in advance