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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 to discuss prospects of further development of PDA-mambot/plugin.

I have following ideas:

1. Definition of browser type with the aid of WURFL library (it will be released in forthcoming version 2.2).
2. Support of three separate templates for wap, i-mode and wap2/xhtml mobile browsers.
3. Redirect to a corresponding subdomain for mobile devices.
4. Opportunity in template parameters to specify a logo and a slogan of a site.
5. Opportunity to view the mobile version of a site through a virtual directory (i.e. through http://site.com/pda/; it is useful if creation of a subdomain is impossible for any reason).
6. For Joomla!1.0 - additional postprocessing of generated pages. Probably, to add caching results of postprocessing.
7. For Joomla!1.5 - to include in a template(s) the changed layout of standard components and modules (that basically is impossible in Joomla!1.0).
8. A script for check of updates which can be started on the schedule (through cron, for example).
9. Also it would be quite good to reduce in passing big images that they don’t exceed the size of the mobile screen. But I do not know yet how to make it.

I wait impatiently for your suggestions, comments, help in realization etc. (more…)

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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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.

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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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 have returned from my business trip. I was in a boarding house “Volga expanses” near Saratov on coast of the Volga. It was a place of remarkable beauty.

But I’m digressing from the topic. By the present nearby 15 person are actively interested by e-mail when will released Mobile Joomla!. Hence, my earnings could make at least $30. But! I now practically will not have a free time to be engaged in sales and to solve problems concerned with remittance. Therefore I have made a decision to release the current version of the project in parts absolutely free. In particular, tomorrow I’ll release the version of a PDA-plugin for Joomla!1.5 (which asked more often). Nevertheless, if you wish to support this activity, my WebMoney purse Z152066003646 is ready to accept donations.
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As I already wrote earlier, in Joomla! there are no tools for automatic pinging xml-rpc servers (e.g., blogsearch.google.com). I promised, that I’ll write a component which will correct this situation. Such component is not written yet, but I can offer you the beta-version of component “Google AutoPing” which sends “ping” to blogsearch.google.com at displaying of new pages or any changes in contents of pages (exactly at changes in mosMainBody, i.e. changes in contents of modules or templates replacement are not considered). (more…)

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 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.