Re: WAP

Thanks! They've been useful. How do I detect whether a WAP browser is being used? I know how to check whether Netscape or IE is being used via JavaScript. Is this how to do it with WAP? "Ross Fleming" <r.fleming@totalise.co.uk> wrote in message news:MABBLJAPGGBPMIPHMAGBKELNCEAA.r.fleming@totalise.co.uk... > This is part of my final year project at university, so hopefully I'll be > able to help you. Some pointers... > > 1. visit http://www.allnetdevices.com/faq/ for wml info > 2. never assume the size of a WAP phone screen, no two are alike. > 3. keep the pages TINY! WAP phones have very little memory, and don't handle > big pages at all. > 4. generating wml pages from php. Basically, you have to have a .php file > that creates html content. At the above webpage there is a php script that > determines whether a wap browser is opening the page and directs it > accordingly. > 5. atart any php/wml pages with <? header("Content-type=text/vnd.wap.wml"); > ?> and it's now a page a phone will accept. > 6. as for the porting all your files to wml, then that is VERY difficult to > do. I'm not even sure PHP could do it. This is what my project is all > about and I'm not using PHP for the conversion. It's harder than you might > think to do. Professional software can do this for you (I believe IBM has a > solution but it costs a bomb) but I'd consider having a wap site and web > site, with an index.php file at the root that sends the user to the correct > version (using the script at 1.) > > Good luck with it, let me know how you get on as I'd really like to hear > other peoples opinions on this, seeing as I'll have to write an 80 page > dissertation on it!!! > > Regards > > Ross Fleming > > -----Original Message----- > From: LaserJetter [mailto:newsaddress@saracenvsu.org.uk] > Sent: 17 January 2002 17:27 > To: php-general@lists.php.net; php-windows@lists.php.net > Subject: [PHP-WIN] WAP > > > I was fiddling around with the Nokia WAP toolkit the other day and I've > created a pretty little WAP site - just listing dates and it has a WBMP > image as a welcome screen. > > Whilst looking for someone to host the site, I noticed a review for f2s > which said "allows PHP to be combined with WML" That would be a pretty neat > thing to do - I could have a PHP script automatically port every page to WML > and WBMP images. > > The problem is, how do you include PHP in a WML file? Do you have to use > <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="php"></SCRIPT> in a .wml file or can you use .php > files? > (I can't just fidddle about because I don't have a WAP phone yet!) > > Also, and I know this isn't really anything to do with PHP, what are the > dimensions in pixels of a typical WAP phone screen? > I checked my site using the emulator in the Nokia Toolkit and the one at > TagTag.com and my WBMP image fitted nicely in the middle of the screen. But > when my girlfriend showed it me on her phone, only about a third of the > image fitted on!! Making the image smaller wouldn't be a problem but I > dont really know what size to make it. > Any directions to some useful info would be greatly appreciated. > > LJ > > > > -- > PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-windows-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-windows-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net >