RE: [PHP4BETA] Small footprint PHP

Samuel, Manuel, > > Things like queueing product orders to be submitted and > > synchronized with a > > remote server whenever the handheld device user is able would > be brilliant > > as they solve many real world problems. > > Heh! I was thinking of just such an application in the shower > this morning. I agree that it would be really cool for devices such as Palms and Psions and ht elikes but the point for WAP, at least at this stage is really to be able to use with mobile devices that have "on-board" access to the internet, because it involves browsing stuff. Devices such as the MC218, which is WAP compliant USES the wap component as the browser, hence WML doesn't really lend itself to this kind of practice... Thereby not implying that it's a bad idea, because it isn't, I just dont see how that would happen via WML unless we are talking server-based storage, which as you said isn't really useable for offline use. Also if you go to wapforum.org you will find that it says "The de facto worldwide standard for providing Internet communications and advanced telephony services on digital mobile phones, pagers, personal digital assistants and other wireless terminals" more or less implying that the goal is not to be able to support offline mode... > I don't think there is ANY chance of a WAP server in many handhelds. The > best I think we can hope for is some local persistant storage and > then make > use of the cut-down JavaScript that WAP provides to queue up requests to > send later. I doubt WML will be able to use any persistant storage, at least from what I have played around with yet, as far as I can see from the WML and WMLScript reference it doesnt support cookies or anything that can be stored on the phone, I might be wrong... What would be nice would be if WMLScript would be able to use standard components included with some handheld devices, for example the "Jotter" application with the MC218 or the calendar with the 7110... > I see PHP being used more, but still at server end. Getting into > different > PHP versions accross some non-upgradable handhelds will be a nightmare for > developers, and make it hard to use. Agreed. Regards, David Hjortso, Deus ex Machina.