Presentation I gave on Thursday 27th May 2010 demonstrating the mobile_tools module and Mobile theme as a way to create a 'mobile verion' of a drupal website.

4. Themeing

6. What am I doing wrong?

10. Key Information

12. Theme: Mobile

15. Wurfl

18. Slightly more complicated but not really

19. Buggy in parts

20. In my presentation I went to a browser where I had Drupal 6 installed. I went through the process of enabling the Mobile Tools and Browscap modules, and the Mobile theme. I then demo'd the 'really simple' and 'simple' recipes from the previous slides. If you want to try it, download the modules and give it a go – it's really quite straightforward and self explanatory.

23. http://www.w3.org/2005/MWI/BPWG/

29. Platform specific coding (meta tags etc.)

31. Primary Links

32. Views

34. Google Maps – static image maps

35. Phone Numbers <a href=”tel:1.222.....

36. So in the demo, I quickly ran through how I overcame the 4 issues that I highlight in the previous slide. Homepage: Create a new homepage node, and in the settings.php file for your mobile domain, update the $conf variable $conf['site_frontpage'] = 'node/123'; Primary Links: Create a new menu specifically for your mobile website, and use the block for this menu to display only on your mobile theme Views: Create separate views for your mobile site and link to them in your mobile menus Content Types: Use node template files to control node displays in your mobile theme

38. $_SESSION['mobile-tools-site-type']

39. So here in the demo, I just did some super basic code in a custom module: function yourTheme_init() { if($_SESSION['mobile-tools-site-type'] == 'mobile') { drupal_set_message('hello world'); } }

43. Blackberry: http://tinyurl.com/5ogpad

45. Apple Developers SDK