EU forum doesn't work on iPhone

Alex_Smith · March 9, 2018, 1:39am

Yesterday my work got me an iPhone

It would be handy to be able to check this forum from my iPhone, but at the moment it simply comes up with a blank page

If we can’t fix it to be viewable from the iPhone’s Safari then maybe we could make it compatible with a phpBB forum app, like “Forum Runner”, "Tapatalk or “TouchBB”??

auggybendoggy · March 9, 2018, 1:39am

Alex,
I don’t mind at all for the forum to be made compatible with phones. I’m not sure why it isn’t but I’ll assume that it will take a modification to PHPBB.

Let me know if I’m incorrect about this.

Alex_Smith · March 9, 2018, 1:39am

Welcome back Gene, did you get my PM?

I’m not sure why I can’t view it in Safari on the iPhone, however, I’ve done some more research and found this (phpbb.com/community/viewtopi … &t=2105036):

I looked for a long time for a way for me and my members to follow my forum on the iPhone. I found out that a competing forum, AVS (avsforum.com), was using a custom version of Forum Runner so I looked into the generic version, but to use it I would have had to modify a bunch of php and html files, and re-modify them every time a new version of phpBB3 came out. Not an elegant solution. Another option, Tapatalk, worked in a similar fashion. I was looking for something simple. I finally located an app called TouchBB. All you have to do is put the TouchBB.php file in your root directory and you are good to go. I used TouchBB and recommended it to my members for several months.

I finally got up the courage to contact the developer, Chris Monahan at corecoding.com, to see if he would write a custom version for me using my icon and app name, and “hardwiring” my forum url. Surprisingly, at least to me, he agreed to do so for a very reasonable cost. It went live yesterday. Check out my forum - ulrahighendforum.com - and my app - Ultra Audio - in the App Store (itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZSt … 02908&mt=8).

I know having my own app is a vanity thing, but my members really like it. It’s one more way I have for keeping them loyal and keeping traffic up.

By the way, I am in no way affiliated with Core Coding and don’t get anything for mentioning TouchBB. I just thought having my own iPhone app was cool and wanted to share my experience with others running forums using phpBB3.

Frank Berryman
Founder and Site Administrator
Ultra High-End Audio and Home Theater Forum

I don’t think it’s worth making an app for it but I think adding the TouchBB.php file (tapatalk.com/plugin.php). Which is basically what this guy said

Alex_Smith · March 9, 2018, 1:39am

The work around for now is to point the iPhone/iPad directly to:
evangelicaluniversalist.com/forum/

rather than evangelicaluniversalist.com/

Alex_Smith · March 9, 2018, 1:40am

Installed TouchBB and I’m actually posting this from my iPhone