PHP WML and Mobile Devices

Cellular phones supporting WAP are slowly, but constantly spreading. Therefore, it could be time for you to start building your WML pages to access internet databases. As such, we will show you how to build PHP/WML pages to access a MySQL database which contains professors receiving hours and exams timetables for a University. I m testing a beta service of this kind, prepared with Vitaveska Lanfranchi, at www.scidecom.it. There are some things ...

The benefits of PHP as a server-side, cross-platform HTML scripting language are generally acknowledged. // ); //]] However, PHP s advantages for developing wireless applications are less well known. PHP is a great tool to generate Wireless Markup Language (WML) for the WAP protocol, and cHTML (a subset of HTML) for i-Mode. For example, PHP can generate different markup languages for the same URL request depending on device requirements (does th...

Working on a website for my company, I discovered the need for wireless access to my email, stocks and such. Not wanting to pay someone else to give me this information, I decided to develop a wireless site. The information to do this is available on the internet, but it is scattered and hard to come across. I needed the ability to run php scripts, access databases, and other functions that I needed PHP to do for me. This article covers the basi...

Working on a website for my company, I discovered the need for wireless access to my email, stocks and such. Not wanting to pay someone else to give me this information, I decided to develop a wireless site. The information to do this is available on the internet, but it is scattered and hard to come across. I needed the ability to run php scripts, access databases, and other functions that I needed PHP to do for me. This article covers the basi...

Project Description In our last article we implemented a simple phone list using PHP and MySQL. The basic premise was to give salespeople access to a central contact database without the need of synchronizing their phones/PDAs. The script pulled contact data from a database, displayed the records, and dialed the selected record. This project will expand on that example, adding the following features: The contact database will include address info...

The purpose of this article is to address the apparently widespread wave of pessimism surrounding WAP technology and of its impending demise! There are many articles currently being pushed from pillar to post around the Internet, about how WAP is about to fall down around our ears and how WAP is no good, people don t like it and it s unreliable! I thought I would take some time out to give a different viewpoint. At this stage, you might well say...

This series of articles describes how to provide Web content to mobile devices through WML (Wireless Markup Language). This article covers some additional uses for WMLScript and how to integrate PHP with WML. Future articles will cover more advanced PHP and WML techniques. Note: These articles cover WML and WMLScript version 1.1, which are supported by the majority of mobile devices in use today. The articles assume a working knowledge of HTML an...