PDA-mambot version 2.0 beta
Tags: joomla, pda, mambot, template
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I suggest testing version 2.0beta of a pda-mambot and pda-subdomain-mambot (for previous version see “PDA-version of Joomla’s site” and “The PDA-version of a site as a subdomain“).
Capabilities:
1. To appoint for the pda-version different “main” page (homepage).
2. Set up display of a template:
- There are 6 positions in template
- It is possible to change names of positions from mambot settings
- To output pathway or not (or to don’t output only on “main” page)
- To call mosMainbody on the “main” page or not (i.e. to output the “main” page completely or to keep modules only)
3. A capability to transform page to the utf-8 encoding (for it the library iconv is necessary).
4. Completely set up head-part of the page:
- Joomla’s standard or simplified head block
- A capability to embed styles in the page instead of using separate file
- Set up of xml-head and doctype-head
5. A choice of content-type heading: text/html or text/xhtml.
How to install:
1. Install a pda-template-2.0
2. Install and publish (activate) pda-bot-2.0 or pda-subdomain-bot-2.0 (or both) depending on your needs.
3. Tune up mambot settings (optional).
For pda-subdomain-bot-2.0 don’t forget to apply Cache hack.
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August 3rd, 2007 at 6:09 pm
Hi.
I’m doing a web site with Joomla 1.0.12, for Sar Virtual, a fictional group of my friends, passioned of flight simulation. My site is ready but i would like to able to see it also with PAD, with necessary limitation imposed by PAD. I installed your last version, and I see on my PAD only the first page. I don’t understand, reading your general guide, very well how can i insert other items or page in the view PAD. Can you explain me with more details how i can modify your plugin?
Very thanks
Emily.
August 10th, 2007 at 8:59 am
You have two templates: the basic template of a site and a template for PDA (pda-template-2.0). Each template has positions for modules. And you can make so, that in the basic template you will have one names of positions (e.g. ‘top’, ‘left’, ‘right’, ‘bottom’ - they depend on the chosen template), and in a template for a PDA others (e.g. ‘left’, ‘user1′, ‘user2′ - these names can be changed in settings of pda-mambot-2.0). In the above example if the menu is placed in a position ‘left’ it will be shown in both templates. And if the login module is placed in a position ‘right’ it will be shown in the basic template only.
So, you need to assign correctly modules to positions in templates. In some cases it’s easier to make a copy of the module and to place it in other position.
It’s really easy!
August 17th, 2007 at 6:09 am
HI,
I installed on my joomla site, as I read, the template and mod PDA. I activated the module and i can see on my PDA connected by wi-fi the home page. I try to understand how can i customize the view of the site in PDA, but i don’t understand how. In the mambot module setting i don’t find anything for the customization and in the PDA template i don’t understand what can i do. Can you help me??? Thanks
August 18th, 2007 at 2:09 pm
emilio schiavetti:
I’m going to publish a guide on pda-mambot-and-template in September. Please, wait a little.
August 20th, 2007 at 4:53 am
Physicist , this is the most amazing plugin since the WYSIWIG editors. Thank you man!
August 28th, 2007 at 10:10 pm
My site has a lot of large images and multimedia such as Flash and video displayed, they just don’t fit into the small screen of PDA. Is there a way to handle these better? Also My site is in UTF8 chinese, and couldn’t see the text displayed correctly via PDA emulator. Is this the problem of this bot or PDA emulator?
September 1st, 2007 at 3:02 pm
If You have a time in September, please publish PDA mambot guide.Thanks
September 2nd, 2007 at 3:17 am
Hi,
I have this installed successfully (great!!), but am having trouble trying to set my 2 templates up. I wish to have my main template as www.website.com, and for pda users, i want it www.website.com/pda.
How is this possible?
Thanks
September 2nd, 2007 at 7:26 am
SKIRTLOL:
It is possible in theory. OK, I do such a version of mambot later this month.
September 4th, 2007 at 1:29 am
Many thanks. I’m fairly new to Joomla! and thought this was already possible.