WML via PHP?

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March 7th, 2000, 11:30 AM

BMager

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I'm just a beginner with Apache, PHP and MySql. My goal is to set up a WML-server, what is no problem when using static pages. Where I could not get until now is to use PHP to create dynamic WML pages. Is that possible? An how?

March 7th, 2000, 01:07 PM

scollo

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Hi,

PHP and Apache don't care at all what type of client-side code you use. So for HTML you might code in PHP:

echo ("<html><body>My page</body></html>");

You could just as easily have PHP generate WML code:

echo ("<wml><card id="begin" title="Home">My card</card></wml>");

I was just surprised to read that you're using an HTTP server like Apache. I thought that WML applications use a WAP server like the Nokia WAP Server ( http://www.nokia.com/wap/products.html ). Am I wrong? Do people also serve WML via HTTP?

-- Christopher

[This message has been edited by scollo (edited March 07, 2000).]

March 8th, 2000, 05:20 AM

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As far as I know about WAP, you host the WML pages on a HTTP server, but you need a Gateway to binary encode the pages and send them to the mobile phone.
The gateway is the tricky commercial part in it!

Peter

March 8th, 2000, 08:42 AM

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by scollo:
Hi,

PHP and Apache don't care at all what type of client-side code you use. So for HTML you might code in PHP:

echo ("<html><body>My page</body></html>");

You could just as easily have PHP generate WML code:

echo ("<wml><card id="begin" title="Home">My card</card></wml>");

I was just surprised to read that you're using an HTTP server like Apache. I thought that WML applications use a WAP server like the Nokia WAP Server ( http://www.nokia.com/wap/products.html ). Am I wrong? Do people also serve WML via HTTP?

-- Christopher

[This message has been edited by scollo (edited March 07, 2000).][/quote]

In the meantime I learned a lot about Apache and PHP. And yes, it's absolutely possible to use Apache as WAP server.

Bernhard

March 8th, 2000, 09:09 AM

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by BMager:
I'm just a beginner with Apache, PHP and MySql. My goal is to set up a WML-server, what is no problem when using static pages. Where I could not get until now is to use PHP to create dynamic WML pages. Is that possible? An how?[/quote]

Hi.

you should send a header field with the right mimetype:

<?php
header("Content-Type: text/x-wap.wmlnn");
?>

if you have enabled the <? ?> tags in php3, you'll have to write the leading <?xml> tag with echo ""; or something.

regards. larsw.

------------------
Lars Wilhelmsen
Buskerud College,
Department of Computer Science,
Faculty of Engineering,
Kongsberg, Norway

March 8th, 2000, 09:35 AM

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Right, Apache+php is the best way to use WML (because of header tag) if the provider's server is still not ready for .wml-extention.

<?php header("Content-Type: text/vnd.wap.wml");
echo "<?xml version="1.0"?>";
echo "<!DOCTYPE wml PUBLIC "-//WAPFORUM//DTD WML 1.1//EN" "http://www.wapforum.org/DTD/wml_1.1.xml">";
$DECK = "<wml> <card> Hello, World</card></wml>";
echo $DECK;
?>

Best regards

Konstantin
http://www.waply.com
WAP Portal + Search Engine

[This message has been edited by Kostik (edited March 08, 2000).]

March 8th, 2000, 10:12 AM

cknight_porsche

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A WAP Server kit costs £180,000 (U.K.).

Don't quote me on that as I will check my source a.s.a.p.

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