Sms / Wap

[teedee]

Hi,

What is needed to make a server SMS / WAP ready ?

I have a couple of clients asking about it and some of my competition offers it.

Everything I know about SMS / WAP on servers I could write on the back of a postage stamp and still leave enough room for a good story..........

[ProWebUK]

you should just need the wap mime types enabled, if you dont have them setup already just add the following to a .htaccess file in a users folder:


AddType text/vnd.wap.wml wml
AddType text/vnd.wap.wmlscript wmls
AddType image/vnd.wap.wbmp wbmp

Chris

[S2S-Robert]

And with this you would be able to wap to your site and have a go? I take it the html files should be named *.wml and images *.wbmp?

[ProWebUK]

Originally posted by S2S-Robert
And with this you would be able to wap to your site and have a go? I take it the html files should be named *.wml and images *.wbmp?

If you are asking if files can simply be renamed to wml and wbmp then no.


WML is a language (similar to HTML) although not the same.
WBMP is an image format - same as gif jpeg etc etc

with WML pages only WML output can be used (php can be used with the file extension php although, again, output must be in wml format)

WMBP is basically black and white you have surely seen the type of image before. its the old 'logos' and 'screensavers' on the black and white mobiles - example below:

http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:id0jg2FzAewC:www.gsm-products.com/html/images/varios/nokialogo.gif

Chris

[S2S-Robert]

Great, now I have an additional feature to tell my customers ;)

Adding them as mime types in the control panel will work as well right?

[ProWebUK]

Can't see why it wouldnt :)

you could try just using a WML file and check it using http://wapsilon.com

you may already have everything you need.

Chris

[teedee]

Thanks Chris :D