Redirection script for iPhone Safari users

Hi,

The following is the same script we have installed in this forum to notify iPhone/iPod users of availability of Tapatalk on your forum. You can change it the way you want it e.g. the number of days before it shows again to user (we set it to 30 days), and the url it redirects to (we set it to open the app store Tapatalk screen directly).

HTML:

<script type="text/javascript"> 
if (document.cookie.indexOf("iphone_redirect=false") < 0) {
    if((navigator.userAgent.match(/iPhone/i)) || (navigator.userAgent.match(/iPod/i))) {
        if (confirm("This forum is iPhone Native! Click OK to learn more about Tapatalk iPhone.")) {            
            document.cookie = "iphone_redirect=false"; 
            window.location = "http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=307880732&mt=8";
        } else {
            var date = new Date();
            var days = 30;
            date.setTime(date.getTime()+(days*24*60*60*1000));
            var expires = "; expires="+ date.toGMTString();
            document.cookie = "iphone_redirect=false" + expires; 
        }
    }
}

</script>

We copy and paste this code to vBulletin template's "header" -



We would be delighted if you can do the same on your site if you are happy with the Tapatalk experience so far.

Sorry folks - fixed a bug where in some cases it never shows!

Also updated the URL so it directs to app store much faster.

Thanks for installing it!

That's a great idea iPika

We thought about it, the only challenge is what if the user doesn't have the Tapatalk app installed? Do they want to open the free version or the paid version? The iPhone itself doesn't provide such information so it seems a bit convoluted to implement this.

Keep brainstroming personally I want to see this happen too...