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Hi, I would like to see a scaled XHTML-version of punbb!
-why?
I was visiting the esato forum, and I noticed that you could view their forum through your cell-phone!
And punbb is just perfect to scale down to a forum you could easily read on your cell-phone.
I don't think it would be much of an effort to get punbb to work on a celluar, just a couple of xhtml-files with less tables and stuff.
I think it'd be better to make some new files, alongside the current ones, and mod the output to fit into the small screen of handhelds etc.
Then you could choose to either visit the regular forum or the modded one with an examination of the http-request...
actually, that's what i meant
maybe I didn't explain it that well
I have used the same idea myself here:
http://forum.sweclockers.com/showthread … did=181076
Here is a little idea of how it could look:
(I took this thread to test)
Kennel, I would really like this feature!
thats awesome, but not every board needs this....how about a mod instead?
sure, a mod would be fine too. That would even be better since the user then gets the chance too choose herself.
Do you think this would be a hard thing to do?
OFF TOPIC POST
Yo! you with the cell phone... here in Israel we say Tachun 
. (Grinded... loaded with cash... ).
Don't get us Israelis wrong or something.. just being friendly... Way to go on the cell! .
lol, cellphones aren't that exspensive, only about 100US dollars....which is about 75 english pounds...thats the only conversion i can pretty much equally estimate....
fly wrote:
lol, cellphones aren't that exspensive, only about 100US dollars....which is about 75 english pounds...thats the only conversion i can pretty much equally estimate....
Why 100USD... it's about 400 shekels in Israel .
What kind of phone is it? A SonyEricsson T610?
yes it is, I have also tested it on a t68i, so it would probably work on many phones.
Wooty wrote:
OFF TOPIC POST
Yo! you with the cell phone... here in Israel we say Tachun
Don't get us Israelis wrong or something.. just being friendly... Way to go on the cell!
Here in sweden, everybody have a cell phone. I can assure you I am not rich
in the more developed countries like the ones in northern europe and parts of eastern europe, most people do have cellphones. israel on the other hand does not have as strong an economy. so things generally are higher priced.i live in the united states though, and not everyone has a cellphone here, and those who do dont normally pay for ity themselves either, their parents do.
I can assure you that it I payed for mine, but as you said fly, northern europe have a pretty good economy. And I am a "new-technical-stuff-geek", so I didn't have any other choice than saving some money and buy myself the most impressive phone on the market, a Sonyericsson T610
lol, most US children have their parents pay for their phones lol, i dont have one at all
Its no wonder why we got a lot of cellphones here... Ericsson in Sweden and Nokia in Finland...we're just in the middle of it
Sweden kicks the rest of the worlds ass when it comes to Internet and Cell Phone..uhm...-net.
I was just thinking about this, but I wonder how it could be done.
Now that extern.php was released with 1.1, its possible to extract small amounts of data from the database quite easily.
How would one go about making a xhtml page though? Surely you need a PHP-enabled browser in the first place, in order to extract the data from the database in the first place. I'm not sure how good these handheld devices are at processing PHP.
Whats RSS all about? Could that help in this somehow? If you could somehow get an xhtml page that just read the final product of the forums, rather than the PHP code itself, then it would be pretty possible.
I'm not a php programmer as you can probably tell, but I can see this should be able to work.
How would one go about making a xhtml page though? Surely you need a PHP-enabled browser in the first place, in order to extract the data from the database in the first place. I'm not sure how good these handheld devices are at processing PHP.
The webserver handles the php-files and sends a "html"-document to the client. The client don't have anything to do with the php-code itselt, just the server :) So there should be no problem making a php-file that outputs xhtml-code instead.
So a page with a .php extension should still work on a WAP phone as long as it generates xhtml?
So a page with a .php extension should still work on a WAP phone as long as it generates xhtml?
Probably yes. I've never used WAP, so I'm not sure how it works.
Though, I do know that a browser never gets the php file.
Just bumping this up a bit.
I've got some php scripts which work fine via wap (just so long as you set your .htaccess file correctly) and use them to update latest scores during a match. Also use php for the news headlines etc, all displays fine via wml.
So all the parts needed for the forum would work...how easy would it be to add a mod to do all this?
(then again, do I really want people to be able to write to the forum when in the pub? it's bad enough when they get back after the pub!!).
Oh, and i'm not sure how the login/cookies would work but I guess they must somehow.
I'm willing to help do this if someone has more idea of what we'd need to change?
Cheers,
Rich
Doing this will be a lot easier with PunBB 1.2, which (thanks to Paul) has way better markup and utilizes CSS to a greater extent than 1.1.
Doing this will be a lot easier with PunBB 1.2, which (thanks to Paul) has way better markup and utilizes CSS to a greater extent than 1.1.
im pretty excited for this.
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