PDA-version of Joomla’s site
Tags: joomla, pda, mambot, template
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It is now fashionable to have the PDA-version of the site so that users could visit a site through a pocket computer. And many people are asking: “Is it possible to realize this on Joomla!?” Yes, it is.
What is necessary for this purpose?
1. To install PDA-template which will be used for an output of the information in the simplified kind. The template contains “header” and “footer” module positions. If these positions already exist in the “main” template of a site - edit this template so that there were no overlays (or on the contrary, that the menu was produced in the same position in both templates). Then set up in the Backend, what modules will be in these positions.
2. To install (and activate!) a PDA-mambot which will choose this template in the case of a pocket computer.
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May 31st, 2007 at 1:38 pm
Thanks for the help Physicist. I installed the mambot and template. So simple, and so frigging awesome =) I have a humble suggestion to make the mambot a tiny bit more versatile though; What if you could set the value for which module position to use before and after the main content? Then you would be able to avoid possible conflicts with “ordinary” templates using the header and footer module positions for other content parts intended for the PDA-version.
May 31st, 2007 at 1:56 pm
2Per:
Such “improvement” is already in my “ToDo” list.
June 1st, 2007 at 9:24 am
Great idea, great implementation. Thanks a lot!
June 2nd, 2007 at 11:23 am
Well, I am sad about it. It works nicely and is a solution and long awaited, BUT:
It won’t work together with Page Cache (http://www.ircmaxell.com/). Any way to make it compatible so it does not show you the cached version when the user agent changed?
June 5th, 2007 at 5:17 am
It won’t work together with almost any cache system which bases on URL only. The way to avoid this is to hack these components.
June 6th, 2007 at 8:44 pm
Great job and thanks for sharing!
June 7th, 2007 at 7:21 pm
How do I set it up to goto that tempalte when a pda is used?
June 8th, 2007 at 2:24 am
In this version the template called ‘pda’ is used.
In the next version it will be customizable.
June 8th, 2007 at 10:36 am
Downloaded the template and bot files, installed, published the bot and Voila!!
Great little bot, Many thanks for your work on this.
June 9th, 2007 at 6:30 am
What are the requirements to proper displaying national characters, please? I use UTF-8 and get no success.