PDA-plugin for Joomla! 1.5
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In spite of the fact that the final version of Joomla! 1.5 has not released yet, many already now try to create sites on its basis. Therefore, I often asked in comments to posts and by e-mail for release the version of a PDA-plugin for Joomla! 1.5.
So, the first version of a pda-plugin for Joomla! 1.5 is released. The set of functions is practically identical to functions of a pda-mambot 2.1.2 (but not all functions have passed a full set of tests), but they now are broken into two parts: the part of functions is tuned in options of a pda-plugin, and the part is tuned in options of a pda-template.
As before, first you need to install a pda-template, and then a pda-plugin. After necessary changes to options of a pda-template and a pda-plugin will be made, it is simply enough to activate pda-plugin.
One of difficulties with which you can confront, consists in the list of positions for modules has no positions added in options of a pda-template. In this case simply enter the name of a position from the keyboard, instead of choose it from the list.
If there will be any questions on installation and use of a pda-plugin, ask them in comments or by e-mail. Also, do not forget to make the donation on WebMoney purses Z152066003646, E721221419702, or R168896637514, if you are interested in the further development of this project.
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October 20th, 2007 at 5:04 pm
Hi i m using ur Template… its really great… !!
but only the news items are displayed…
the menu [ Transmenu ] , login panel , and no other component is visible !!!
is there any way to show them ?
i use Docman [ file manager ]
i need to list all my files there.. and people can download them direct to their mobile device…
is that possibe ?
October 21st, 2007 at 5:14 am
Well, I guess I’ll pile in on the bugs…
1) If an admin has enabled “link titles” where the titles are turned into links on the home page… the page titles are not readable. This is because you have a blue URL color on top of a blue box for the title text.
The solution would be to either change the URL color, or, change the color of the box.
2) The old version (1.9) of the template appeared much better than the current version on iPhone and iPod touch. I’m not sure if it’s respecing the normal font, or if it’s a spacing issue… I suspect the font size is expanding to the width of the page. This actually looks terrible on high-resolution devices (like iPhone), since you often have to drag slightly to the left or right to read each line.
I would switch back to the 1.9 version of formatting the text, defining a strict font size rather than being dynamic to the width…
October 22nd, 2007 at 2:30 pm
varun:
Yes. Make a copy of menu module, login module etc. and publish them in one of pda-template positions (you can specify names of positions in pda-template settings).
I didn’t test Docman component from mobile devices. So, I don’t know. Test it.
October 24th, 2007 at 4:00 pm
Really needed this component, thanks! But having trouble installing template file pda15.zip. Here is the error I am getting.
# JInstaller::install: File ‘/home/famouspo/public_html/tmp/install_471fa357123b8/css/index.html’ does not exist
Help!
October 24th, 2007 at 11:13 pm
Wayne:
Sorry, I forget to remove index.html from templateDetails.xml
Try to redownload pda15.zip.
October 25th, 2007 at 8:08 am
I managed to fix the problem with iPhone and iPod touch (at least for now).
What I did was take version 1.9 (which I have backed up) and altered that template to work with 2.1.2’s mambot (by changing the version check so that everything reads 2.1.2 in the template). Things look great on both devices once again.
Hopefully the old template will be offered, or better, find out whatever is causing the current plugin/mambot to look horrible on iPhone (I’m still pretty sure what I posted above is the main cause).
October 31st, 2007 at 12:48 am
Hai…..
Thia is jerlin…. I have gone through your site…… I don’t know about PDA plug-in… after gone through your site, i have a some idea about PDA….. Really its useful to everyone……. You have done a good job..
January 5th, 2008 at 11:47 am
Thanks for the awesome plugin. Finding this plugin encouraged me to play around with Joomla! for the first time. I am having a little difficulty, however. I am using 1.5 RC4 and your 1.5 plugin. Everything works great in most browsers, and my blackberry and windows mobile smartphones see the PDA page correctly. Unfortunately any IE browser sees the PDA page too, rather than the default layout. Did I miss something in the configuration?
January 5th, 2008 at 1:31 pm
Joe:
Try to redownload plugin (sorry, I forgot to remove MSIE from mobile browsers list).
January 6th, 2008 at 1:42 am
Awesome…Thanks for the quick response and quick fix!!
January 12th, 2008 at 4:36 am
How about fireboard template? Any ideas to rebuild it?
January 12th, 2008 at 7:07 am
It is possible to make different (mobile) template for fireboard. And it is easy to make its active for mobile devices (just to set global variable $fb_user_template). But it takes a lot of time to make a new template. And unfortunately, now I have no time for work on it.
February 27th, 2008 at 3:53 pm
Run this unter joomla 1.0.12 ?
March 1st, 2008 at 3:43 am
Jo2000:
No, there is separate version for Joomla!1.0.x (see http://joomup.com/blog/downloads/).
March 1st, 2008 at 12:26 pm
THX + HAND
March 5th, 2008 at 8:27 am
If I install other extensions like community builder, blogs, photo gallery and fireboard will it show also in the PDA?
May 22nd, 2008 at 6:15 am
Is there a way to embed utf8 fonts to view non-english (eg: Maldivian written script, ދިވެހި) fonts into the PDA plugin? If so, this would be great for the many Non-english websites that has asian, arabic, chinese etc.
May 22nd, 2008 at 8:22 am
Joseph, I don't know how to "embed" font into pda-compatible page. If mobile device supports non-english characters, it shows page correctly. Can you explain in details what did you mean?
June 28th, 2008 at 4:08 am
well, mobile fireboard template for J!1.0 and J!1.5 becomes most wanted.
Give us more pictures and let volunteer make it happened.
July 25th, 2008 at 6:56 am
Great plugin but still cant get my PDA return the whole site with menu. I only get my main page and thats all.
Something to change or configure?
August 15th, 2008 at 8:39 pm
Greetings,
I love your initiative in developing this plugin and template. I am having issues getting the menu to appear on the mobile version of my site as well. I even attempted creating a new menu and module and did not have any success with it.
Any suggestions?
Thanks again!
October 12th, 2008 at 5:03 am
Fot our website not really a must, but with this idiot-proof plugin to easy not to use. Many thanks!
October 14th, 2008 at 4:46 pm
I read in various posts about thoughts for image resizing in PDA-versions of content items. As the images used within content items in our websites are pretty wide, do you plan add an image-resize option in the near future?
October 16th, 2008 at 2:20 pm
I installed the PDA version and now my site has the following error :
Direct Access to this location is not allowed.
I can not get to the front end nor the back end now.
Please help
October 16th, 2008 at 3:52 pm
Paul Greco, you installed PDA-mambot (for J!1.0 only) instead of PDA-plugin (for J!1.5 only). To solve the problem just delete (using FTP) all the text from /plugins/system/pdabot.php and uninstall plugin in backend by usual way.
November 25th, 2008 at 4:38 am
Hi thanks for a great plug-in. Worked fine on other sites, but my first on 1.5.8 and only some of parameters show: Mambot settings and Post processing, none of the others. Tried the zip and tar.gz. Regards
January 1st, 2009 at 6:30 pm
Thank you for a user-friendly plugin, simple but effective!
January 15th, 2009 at 2:04 am
I installed and then decided to try and uninstall the pda plugin, but now I cant get my original template to come up, even thought it is still the default. I can only I get the default Joomla template. What do I need to do to recover my desired template?
Thanks,
Worth
January 15th, 2009 at 10:24 am
Good morning,
Its a new day and the panic of last night is diminished. This is the issue now in a nut shell. After installing and then uninstalling pda plugin and pda template, none of my other templates will work. I have even tried installing another template, and it does not work. I only get the default Joomla (blue) template. What editting changes do I need to make where so that the system will find the other templates and I can use them?
Thanks,
Worth
January 23rd, 2009 at 9:09 am
Worth:
Go into your database and look for the "jos_templates_menu" table. In this table you will see the PDA template, just remove it and your done!
January 23rd, 2009 at 9:13 am
A good how to configure munual would be nice though, It doesnt work on my website and I have tried everything. Any help would be nice.
February 19th, 2009 at 1:59 am
Physicist great work….looking forward to your manual . Can pliz help me to give some link or idea how to test out the PDA functionality in pc. I would love to learn this craft but dont have any PDA. Any free emulator for pc where i can test out dynmic aspect of joomla site.
March 1st, 2009 at 11:17 am
Greetings from Colombia (South America). Great job, congratulations. One question: I have a site with linux and php 5. This PDA extension works very good (!). I have another site with windows (IIS) and PHP 4. This works fine except the redirect to mobile home as defined in the configuration. There any restrictions on versions of PHP and OS (Linux / windows)?
March 5th, 2009 at 6:33 pm
Hello I just installed PDA template PDA-15 and Plug in bot15. After my install I get the following message when FHAMERICA.MOBI displays…
"Inconsistency between versions of PDA-plugin and PDA-template". What coul be wrong?
Any help is appreciated.
Robert
March 12th, 2009 at 10:56 am
Hello I just installed PDA template PDA-15 and Plug in bot15. After the installation i have try it on many device like nokia phone, pda , iphone and it work fine.
The only strange thing are that a problem with Internet Explorer, this one recognize the pda template instead of the normal template.
you have some way to help me?
thank you
milk84
March 18th, 2009 at 5:14 pm
Same problem. PDA template shows in IE 7, not default template. Such a pity
March 23rd, 2009 at 12:46 pm
It also displays the pda template in firefox as well.
March 27th, 2009 at 9:37 am
I want that the plugin should not detect the pda. But if one wants to visit mobile version of website he or she should visit by typing subdomain in address bar.
I tried a lot to do this but am not able to get it done.
Can you please tell me how to do it.
March 30th, 2009 at 1:03 pm
Same problem with the Internet Explorer viewing the PDA Template. There is anyway to fix it?
April 7th, 2009 at 2:37 pm
Clicking "Save" button when submitting a weblink via the standard Joomla Weblink submission plugin does nothing. I have the same problem in PocketIE and in Opera Mobile. Any Ideas. I once had a PDA template (not this one) that worked submitting weblinks via the PDA template but this one doesnt seem to work
July 14th, 2009 at 1:03 pm
Hi. great plugin, works nicely.
however, I only get the choice of a "Left Module Position" how do I have a choice of module positions, so that I can spready my modules above and below the article content.
Thanks
Shane
July 14th, 2009 at 1:06 pm
I figured it out. As you said in the beginning. Type the module position in, instead of from a drop down list.
WONDERFUL… have a great day !!!
July 22nd, 2009 at 4:13 am
Having the same issue regarding the PDA template showing in Internet Explorer 7. Has anyone figured this out???
July 24th, 2009 at 4:06 am
hi,
I installed the pda template and plug-in.
when i activate this template, I can’t see any menus.
I just see the homepage.
I use joom15, my website uses the topmenu (of the standaard joomla15 template)
Can you help me out?
Regards,
Roeland
July 25th, 2009 at 3:15 pm
Hi! It seems that the template and the bot rel 2.1.2 cannot be run on Joomla 1.5.13 native. So what should I change in the code, that it is possible to run native mode?
BTW, I am not able to do PHP coding. Perhaps someone may help with this?
July 29th, 2009 at 2:16 am
how do I can to disable plugin for some pages?sorry for my bad english
July 30th, 2009 at 2:44 am
please,it is very important question for me.mr. Ryabov please answer
September 10th, 2009 at 1:28 am
Someone mentioned about manual. Would you please send to me anousak@gmail.com thanks a million.
Anousak
September 10th, 2009 at 3:54 am
Any site that used pDA-Plugin that I can check? Thanks,
anousak
October 9th, 2009 at 2:54 pm
how do i uninstall this template as it is not compatible with 1.5.14 beta
please help
October 23rd, 2009 at 5:54 am
Just installed Windows 7 which has IE8 have found that the PDA template becomes the default template if enabled when using IE8 have had to disable PDA plugin, please look into this. Firefox and Chrome work fine.
Cheers
October 27th, 2009 at 12:23 pm
Yes, I admit that under Windows 7 + IE8 PDA template pops up.
October 27th, 2009 at 3:08 pm
Hi Dmitry (and all other who have problems with IE-8 showing up PDA template:
The solution is written in joomla forum http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?f=41&t=371889 by ddmobley: You just have to open the file "pdabot.php". In this you find the section "CheckAgent()", in an array: function CheckAgent() { $pdas = array(…..In the contribution above, there had been trouble with IE-7 and its special user agent string. If you have changed "nec" into "nec-" within the pdabot.php the problem with IE-7 was gone.For IE-8 problem, you will have to find out, which user agent string is used by IE-8. Then you can compare with the entries in the padbot.php and modify that entry, which is similar with the user agent string of the IE-8.Please post result here! Thanks.
October 29th, 2009 at 12:17 pm
I cant work out which one IE8 uses, any idea how i can find out?
November 6th, 2009 at 5:35 am
Hi, i have tried to set the PDA Homepage but it doesnt display the page i want it to display
why? plzzzzzzzzzzz help
November 12th, 2009 at 6:48 am
Thanx for such an amazing plugin
Its a great help
I have query,
Can we have ad banners display wid this theme using google mobile ads? or any other ads for this matter?
pls help
November 15th, 2009 at 9:52 pm
i also has problem with PDA Homepage too! how to redirect it ??
November 18th, 2009 at 1:53 am
Hi, please check http://mobilejoomla.com project for the latest and best way of mobilizing Joomla! web sites.
November 24th, 2009 at 3:02 pm
I am looking for a free joomla 1.5 mobile template. I cannot download your old or new one. Is it possible to get access to one now?