mrkumar Posted December 18, 2006 Share Posted December 18, 2006 Gurus: I have a requirement for developing small screen UIs which can be accessed from cell phones. Essentially, I need my cell phone users to access my url for specific queries like checking stock levels for a partilcular product. so here a cell phone user would need to access the url and enter a product load and get its stock qty on submission. would appreciate any pointers to do this in php ? Thanks - mrkumar Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/31130-developing-uis-for-cell-phones-using-php/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Psycho Posted December 18, 2006 Share Posted December 18, 2006 It's no different than you would do for a normal site. You just need to design it for a mobile device. You could either create custom pages for mobile devices or use the same pages for regular web viewing and use the "media" properties in the style sheet to change the layout based upon the device viewing the page. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/31130-developing-uis-for-cell-phones-using-php/#findComment-143747 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrkumar Posted December 18, 2006 Author Share Posted December 18, 2006 Hello mjdamato: I appreciate your fast response. I would be doing this for the first time. would it be possible for you to please point me to any php tutorial on this on the web if any. Alternately, if you have a sample code for a cell phone UI, I could use and test. would appreciate help!Thanks - mrkumar Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/31130-developing-uis-for-cell-phones-using-php/#findComment-143823 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenrbnsn Posted December 18, 2006 Share Posted December 18, 2006 PHP doesn't care how the data is presented on the screen or even if there is a screen. You need to research how to present your data, most likely using CSS.Ken Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/31130-developing-uis-for-cell-phones-using-php/#findComment-143834 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Psycho Posted December 18, 2006 Share Posted December 18, 2006 It is not a PHP issue, so there are no PHP tutorials on how to do this. You just need to format the pages to display correctly on small form factors. I've never done this personally, so I have no tips to give you.But, you first need to decide if you will have stand-alone pages for mobile devices or if you will utilize the same pages that you use for standard browsers. If your users' are going to be internal users (not the public at large) then dedicated pages would be my choice. However, if your users will be anyone and everyone, then you would need to at least make sure there's a link on the home page to the "mobile" site and that home page would need to display correctly for mobile users.To get a page to display correctly for mobile and standard browsers, use the "media" style as I mentioned earlier. here is something to get you started: http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/tutorials/css/mediatypes Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/31130-developing-uis-for-cell-phones-using-php/#findComment-143839 Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Little Guy Posted December 18, 2006 Share Posted December 18, 2006 Directly from w3.orghttp://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-html40-mobile/ Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/31130-developing-uis-for-cell-phones-using-php/#findComment-143843 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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