PDA-mambot Guide
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1. Introduction
The quantity of mobile devices in the world greatly outnumber quantity of desktops in houses and offices, therefore creation of sites convenient for users of mobile devices is not a rarity. And whether your Joomla-site is designed for viewing by means of mobile devices? If no, it is easy to correct it with the pda-mambot.
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December 1st, 2007 at 10:51 am
It tooks me two days to read and try to reconfigure, instal, reinstal mooving the files from mambo folder to the new domain and still not yet solvation of the problem with showing the pda site.
December 1st, 2007 at 4:21 pm
You cannot use PDA-mambot with Mambo. The reason is very simple: Mambo has no event "onStart". If you wish to try to add this event in Mambo, you need to add in file /index.php next lines
$mambothandler=&mosMambotHandler::getInstance(); $mambothandler->loadBotGroup('system'); $mambothandler->trigger('onStart');before lines
Good luck!
December 12th, 2007 at 8:00 pm
I am a newbiw with joomla and am confused at what should be here:
Extended Settings:
PDA Homepage. Set this page as a homepage (e.g. index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=12&itemid=1)
December 13th, 2007 at 2:46 am
Paul:
This option allow you to set certain page as a home page for mobile version. If this field is empty, mobile homepage is normal homepage (usually index.php?option=com_frontpage&itemid=1). You can set here sef-url too (like content/view/77/7/).
December 31st, 2007 at 2:29 pm
I am able to get the index page and search module to display, but can not get the main menu (left side) to appear. I did make a copy and tried to position the menu on "top" "bottom" and "header" all with negative results. I am using the default template with Joomla 1.0.13.
Any suggestions greatly appreciated.
Ralph
January 2nd, 2008 at 11:55 am
Ralph:
In mambot parameters find names of positions: parameters "1st module position above pathway" etc. (search module is displayed in one of them). Appoint one of these positions to the Menu module.
January 8th, 2008 at 4:38 pm
Physicist,
Excellent module and does what it says.
The question I have is concerned with the subdomain option / setup.
The site is www.tharna.co.uk so I have set up a subdomain of wap.tharna.co.uk I was hoping I would be still able to view the website in full at the www. address but now when I access either site, I get the same PDA version. Is this correct, or have I missed something?
January 10th, 2008 at 6:19 am
Terl:
This is not correct, of course.
What version of plugin do you use? What browsers do you test it with?
February 4th, 2008 at 5:45 am
I have tried both PDA mambot and the Mobile Joomal, and with both I do not get the PDA template when browsing from a phone or emulator - it just shows the normal Joomla template. The bot is published and the templates are in my template directory.
February 7th, 2008 at 2:33 am
Shaheem:
The Mobile Joomla has several methods to determining mobile device. Try to experiment with them.