Carlos
User agent mapping to image display capability is precisely what is
required. You are on the right track. You will be able to extract the
handset model from the UA string and do a database lookup. As you probably
know, alot of phones can also handle JPG so you may want to add a flag that
can provide a JPG instead of a GIF for the appropriate content (e.g.
photographic wallpapers rather than illustrations). JFYI, there are more
sophisticated solutions also will do resizing on the fly based on more
precise screen parameters, but these cost money or time. Your approach
should be ok - you may want to check out some commercial sites to compare
your result to that of others, and also to the expectation of the client.
HTH
Michael.
On 4/11/06, Carlos Camacho <carlos@mmlab.co.jp> wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> I just joined the list today. I'm a little bit in a pickle, so I pray
> someone can help me, or steer me in the right direction.
>
> I'm working in the Web Media section of my company (Japanese). Most of
> my work is design and setting up LAMP-based CMS systems.
>
> Today, the people in Mobile Media (they make keitai pages) asked me to
> help them with a keitai site. Although I know nothing of keitai sites,
> they figure I can help due to my PHP background (I'm a newbie, really!)
>
> OK, here is the problem..
>
> They have 3 CSV files. docomo.csv, au.csv, and vodafone,csv
>
> These files contain two columns, with data like this:
>
> SH900i l.gif
> P101 s.gif
> TR10 l.gif
> ST900 m.gif
>
> and so on...
>
> The first column is the handset field. The second column refers to the
> size ability of the model. ie l.gif stands for large, s = small, etc.
>
> In this keitai page, say they have a list of links, like...
>
> * Wallpaper 1 link
> * Wallpaper 2 link
> * Wallpaper 3 link
> etc..
>
> When the mobile user clicks Wallpaper 1 link, it will load a wallpaper
> image (jpg, or png I suppose). The image size will be the "best" for
> their handset.
>
> From my newbie brain, I figure I need to find the user_agent. Then
> based on that assign the correct image for the handset.
>
> At the moment, they use a slow and large CGI/Perl script to do this job.
> The script though does much more than they need.
>
> I hope I explained my problem well. What are you guys doing/using for
> such a case? I'm really lost.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Carlos
>
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Received on Wed Apr 12 01:41:53 2006