By Dollars5 on

Is it possible to create a mobile edition of a Drupal site that my mobile users will connect to http://mysitename.mobi and ergular users will connect to http://mysitename.com and I provide same content for both only difference being mobile edition is light weight and normal edition is full featured.

Any example of such and tips on how to achieve it would be kind of you all.

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Dollars5’s picture

Dollars5 commented

Hi All,

Since my company is a mobile software/consulting firm - I can expect users also connecting to my site via - mobile. Do I need to install a seperate site or drupal allows to provide the same content as lite edition?

TIA.

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eaton commented

Use drupal's multisite hosting capabilities to set up two directories in your /sites folder: one for yoursite.com, and another for yoursite.mobi. The settings.php files for both sites can point to the same database, but the settings file for the .mobi site can force the site to use a different theme -- one that outputs the lean and mean 'mobile friendly' HTML and CSS.

You'll have to keep copies of the same modules in each directory under /sites, but this setup would allow you to have two very different looks based on domain.

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Dollars5 commented

When I went through some posts - me too thought of the same by having two sites sharing the same DB - Is it possible? Any pointers?

Isn't there a better solution?

Thanks for the help anyways.

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deekayen commented

I created a new theme just for this purpose: http://drupal.org/project/mobi

You leave a regular theme as the default and then the .mobi loader module (http://drupal.org/project/mobi_loader) will load the .mobi theme when visitors go to the .mobi domain alias.

It took 3 hours to do it all, so I'm sure there are all kinds of features that could be added. I hope it'll attract patches for new, cool stuff.

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kylehase commented

As mobile devices become increasingly popular micro browser detection and support should be considered in the Drupal core.

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jamesJonas commented

I have a alpha smartphone/webkit site that is running under a single code base. Detail are here http://drupal.org/node/192183.

James

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