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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.
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Now I on a regular basis receive letters with the request to give more detailed information on the project “Mobile Joomla!”.

I was going to release this project on this weekend, but, unfortunately, the release should be postponed.

Now following parts of the project are ready:

“PDA-mambot 2.2″ mambot+template - 70% (in particular, library WURFL is added, that is the commercial version can determine absolutely precisely the device from which the user has come on a site)
PDA-mambot Guide - 70%
“PDA-mambot for J!1.5″ (beta) - 50%
“Google AdSense Mobile” module - 100%
“PayPal Mobile Checkout” component+module - 50%
“Mobile ads services” - 30%

Payments will be made via WebMoney system (in Russia PayPal system yet so is developed, as in other countries). The package will be sent customers by e-mail.

This project and information is deprecated. Please visit Mobile Joomla! project at mobilejoomla.com for the latest and best way of mobilize Joomla! web sites. Thank you very much for your support.

Now I’m planning to work on creation of the package “Mobile Joomla!”. The package includes:

• PDA-mambot 2.2 and PDA-template 2.2 (special edition);
• PDA mambot guide (the full illustrated information on PDA-mambot installation and tuning);
• “PayPal Mobile Checkout” module;
• “Google AdSense Mobile” module;
• List of mobile ads services (and how to embed them in joomla-powered site).

The package will cost about $2.00. If you are interested in it, write me in comments or by e-mail.

In this post I’ll describe some ways, which will allow testing the pda version of a site on usual computer.

Opera gives the good tool for testing, choose in menu View > Small Screen (Shift+F11) to see page in a display mode close to mobile devices.

Other way consists in use of Firefox and Web Developer extension. It allows to display page how it will be displayed on a handheld computer. Also for Firefox there is User Agent Switcher plugin. (more…)

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Version 2.1.2 of a mambot is released:

• Working with the utf-8 codepage is fixed.
• The option to change gzip compression for a pda is added.

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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.*).

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Tags: joomla, pda, mambot, template

This project and information is deprecated. Please visit Mobile Joomla! project at mobilejoomla.com for the latest and best way of mobilize Joomla! web sites. Thank you very much for your support.

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.
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