Creating WAP pages with PHP

I am busy developing a site that will need to be accessed by both WAP and normal browsers. The normal browser access is OK and the site is finished for that - now comes to big problem:

I need to create content based on a MySQL database for use on WAP, my only means of accessing the MySQL db is using PHP from a Linux server. I've tried a test that is supposed to display Hi on the WAP browser. This does not work it gives me the following error:
Unsupported content type: text/html
The code below is the original code I tried. After that I included Header("Content-type: text/wml"); with Content-type changing from text/wml to text/xml to xml to wml to xml/wml to no avail.

<?

print "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>
<!DOCTYPE wml PUBLIC \"-//WAPFORUM//DTD WML 1.1//EN\" \"http://www.wapforum.org/DTD/wml_1.1.xml\">

<wml>
<template>
<do type=\"options\" name=\"prev\" label=\"Back\">
<prev/>
</do>
</template>
<card title=\"Page Title\" id=\"first\">
<p align=\"center\">Hi</p>
</card>
</wml>
";

?>

Your help would be greatly appreciated

you want something more like this....

<?
header("Content-type: text/vnd.wap.wml");
echo("<?xml version=\"1.0\"?>\n");
echo("<!DOCTYPE wml PUBLIC \"-//WAPFORUM//DTD WML 1.1//EN\""
." \"http://www.wapforum.org/DTD/wml_1.1.xml\">\n");
?>

<wml>
<template>
<do type="options" name="prev" label="Back">
<prev/>
</do>
</template>
<card title="Page Title" id="first">
<p align="center">Hi</p>
</card>
</wml>


The stuff inbetween the <? ?> is php, outside is WML. Not the line that reads
header("Content-type: text/vnd.wap.wml");
This tells the client browser that WML follows. Note - you'll need a wml browser to view your pages.

Thanks topls64 - now I can finish (at last)

Just note the bottom have of the example I gave was in wml. You can, however, output the wml via php, like this....




This allows you to add variables, etc....

Figured that.

Thanks anyway

Hi,

How do i view the pages ? Also do i name the pages as mypage.wml or mypage.php ? I am on CPanel based server and I have same issues. I have now created a sample page using the code provided above but i don't know what extension to give it ? Please help.

Thanks.

Hi kikloo, welcome to Devshed!

In future please do not dig up posts that are this old -
please use a bit of common sense.
Your questions aren't even relevant to the original post..

Anyway, to answer your questions:
1: How do i view the pages ? FAQ #5
2: Also do i name the pages as mypage.wml or mypage.php -up to you, provided that you can get your server to parse .wml as php it doesn't matter
3: I am on CPanel based server and I have same issues. Probably your php isn't working if you are using short_tags (<?) -
see recent threads in the PHP forum about this: one to get you started

WAP is not that useful these days anyway,
you may want to investigate XHTML MP, see WAP Resources for more info.

HTH and good luck.