PDA mambot 2.1
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Changes in the new version:
- Now there is no division into “pda-bot” and “pda-subdomain-bot”. All is set up within the framework of one plugin.
- It is possible to remove optionally pictures (img) and others tags (iframe, object, applet, embed. script) which can seem to you “superfluous” in the version for a pda.
- It is possible to set a name of a subdomain (not necessarily pda.*).
- Specially for developers - the global variable $ispda (or $GLOBALS[’ispda’]) is created (accepting value “true” in case of pda-version of a site, and “false” otherwise).
- It is possible to install and uninstall a patch for joomla cache directly in mambot parameters (in a block of mambot description).
- And others.
It is shortly planned to publish a series of illustrated articles devoted to installation and adjustment of this plugin.
Don’t forget to uninstall previous version of mambot and template before install new one.
27 Responses to “PDA mambot 2.1”
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September 3rd, 2007 at 6:46 pm
The tar.gz doesn’t give me any problem.
Must be that zipper has a problem in OSX where Joomla is perhaps located on a Linux host.
gr
Fonny
September 3rd, 2007 at 10:47 pm
Has anyone got non-English UTF-8 content displayed correctly with this bot? I have everything set to utf8, but still could not have the content displayed correctly in pda emulator.
September 3rd, 2007 at 11:35 pm
sky:
What is codepage of your site and which pda emulator do you use?
Note that you need PHP with iconv library to convertation to utf-8 work well.
September 14th, 2007 at 11:16 am
Any chance that you can add the User Agent for the iPhone? I am building a site specific for this device and it would greatly help. Is the an easy way to add it ourselves?
Thanks.
September 14th, 2007 at 3:08 pm
Gaboinked!:
What is user agent name of the iPhone?
September 26th, 2007 at 2:46 am
Hello I am a newbie and I really liek this idea, I have downloaded both downloads, now I dont know how to seperate the regular site from the PDA site, can some one give me a set by step set of instructions so I can figure out how to do this.
Thanks a lot I love this stuff, am going to donate as soon as it starts working
September 30th, 2007 at 6:22 pm
Is there an easy way to remove iphone/touch from the list of pda user agents? The iphone does a great job rendering the normal page and it would be a shame to force a pda version on it. Here’s a typical iphone user agent string
| Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; XXXXX like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/420+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/241 Safari/419.3 |
September 30th, 2007 at 6:25 pm
as a follow-up, I just noticed the comment above asking to add the user-agent for the iphone. Mine already detects that I’m using an iphone… I’m guessing the “mobile” element in the $pdas array is what is being picked up.
So, could there be a if iphone, return false?
September 30th, 2007 at 8:54 pm
Very bad form to follow up to a follow-up, but…
In reply to 14-Gaboinked!, the pda mambot will detect an iphone/touch as a mobile device and apply the moble template by default.
In reply to myself, simply removing “mobile” from the $pdas array in mambots/system/pdabot.php will allow the iphone to browse the normal site. My only other device to test is a windows mobile phone and that still shows the pda formatted version of the site. I’m not sure if any other devices are specifically identified only by “mobile” in the user agent string, so this might not be an ideal solution but it works for me so far.
October 29th, 2007 at 3:30 am
nabil khan:
Read http://joomup.com/blog/2007/10/29/pdamambot-guide/
Update: and http://dev.mobi/node/721