By marlowx on

hello,

i am a newbie who has been running a drupal based website for my rock band for a while on 4.7...

you can see what i have done here: http://NoteToSelfDontDie.com/members

basically, i am very happy with what i have done using 4.7...

the only thing i still want to do is to have a version of the site for mobile phones / pda / iphone etc...

i installed 5x on a test server to try it out and i couldn't get the music to be displayed as i have on my current site... everything seems so different...

anyway, do you guys recommend moving to 6x or 5x to get a site that can serve mobile phone formatted pages and keep up with the modern/current drupal versions or shall i stick with 4.7?

thanks,
gerard

⋅ Categories: Drupal 4.7.x, Drupal 5.x, Drupal 6.x

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cwgordon7’s picture

cwgordon7 commented

4.7 is currently unsupported. This means that even security bugs will no longer be fixed. Upgrade to 5.x immediately, even if you are not quite ready to upgrade to 6.x.

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marlowx’s picture

marlowx commented

i understand the concept about keeping up with security updates so i want to upgrade...

its just that the experiments i have had with 5x are pretty painful...

and i noticed that there aren't that many updated modules for 6 yet...

i am willing to put the work in though...

should i go ahead and jump to 6 as it is the newest?

i am using the newsletter module in 4.7 to have people subscribe easily to the band mailing list and it is great for making the newsletter emails too so would love to have that in 6 but i can't find it or anything similar...

the other big need is to serve mobile phone specific pages as well as full screen computer displays from one installation...

i have found a mobile phone theme for 6x but also the accassability module for 5x so not sure which to go for...

for selling mp3 downloads i have several 3rd party services so not bothered about the drupal ecommerce module...

also using spreadshirt.com for t-shirt sales etc...

not that we are actually selling stuff at the moment but hoping to get the ball rolling soon so need to be on top of it right now...

what do you guys think?

erifneerg’s picture

erifneerg commented

my understanding, the ideal way to move to 6 is to have everything working on the latest 5.xx. However, things like CCK and Views not out of alpha/beta are holding alot of people going to 6 (such as myself). So you really need to update yourself to 5.x before going to 6 in the future.

zilla’s picture

zilla commented

i'm toying wiht mofuse right now - you may want to take a look if your site isn't super heavy on modules:
http://www.mofuse.com/

i looked at many sites like it, but it's the first to allow theming and tweaking and masking to your own subdomain (like m.yoursite.com) - and it will cost you zero to play with.

i threw your url into their 'garden' tool and here's a hacked first pass at it (without doing **anything**)
http://mofuse.com/grow/testlb.php?sid=5772 (single screen)

full preview: http://gopp1w.mofuse.mobi/ - they channle through mowser.com so image are fine and everything, really nice tool
(oh, and they tweak for iphone too, all free)

marlowx’s picture

marlowx commented

thanks guys, i'll check mofuse out....

zilla’s picture

zilla commented

btw, been beating on mofuse a bit - best of the 'mobilize my site' automated tools, though it can strip items out and does not appear to respect the css ordering because it's built from rss

on a related aside, i've tested several themes in mobile browsers with NO changes to basic theme structure and a few work very well, particularly the 'framework theme' (which is highly flexible for styling) - even looks nice in my crappy blackberry browser...

yraffah’s picture

yraffah commented

any idea which file should I put the PHP code in for me to auto redirect iphone users to my mofuse URL?
Is it the template.php, page.php or something else?