WAP/Mobile Site & Template Selection

[SN3]

Hello all,

It's been a long time since I've been over here but I love the great things that you guys are doing!  Thanks and nice work!

Anyway, I'm working with a nonprofit organization and we are trying to develop a WAP/mobile version of our website.  I have already made adjustments to the Google Sitemap module and made it display the names of the pages and make them linked.  I am looking for a way to use this code:

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		echo ' <a href='		. $onecontent->GetURL()  . '> '. $onecontent->Name()  . '</a>'. "\n";

and add a simple piece of coding, to make it something like:

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		echo ' <a href='		. $onecontent->GetURL()  . [b]index.php?template=newtemplate[/b]'> '. $onecontent->Name()  . '</a>'. "\n";

Basically, I want to make a template without images (or minimal images) and edit this code to select that template for every page.  Is this possible?  Is there a simple line I can add to tell the page externally which template to use?  I would also need to make a way for the internal links on the pages add the extension so all pages show up with that template.  Does that make sense?  Possible?  Thanks!

[Dr.CSS]

Can't make a CSS for mobile and check that box at the bottom then when a visitor is using mobile phone they only get that styling?...

[SN3]

I was originally going to go with CSS, but the site is really template-controlled and the CSS doesn't do much with the images.

[Dr.CSS]

If you have mobile CSS you can set it to not show images, actually it wouldn't have the calls for images unless you call them, it would be a stripped down ver. of your other CSS...

I am under the impression that if a mobile device is calling up your page/s that it will only be fed the CSS marked for mobile and no others, I don't have a mobile data plan to test it...

[SN3]

That's a great point!  However, I still want to show images.  I really just need to have a separate template for mobile devices, especially since the navigation needs to be re-done (the many drop downs won't work correctly). 

[Nullig]

Have you tried using the "Handheld" stylesheet that comes with CMSMS?

Nullig

[SN3]

No, but the stylesheet really isn't the issue.

[SN3]

Any ideas?  All I really need at this point is for there to be some sort of external template selection where it uses a different template if you are on a mobile device.

[Dr.CSS]

Have you googled for device detection JS?...

[SN3]

A JS script to detect browsers? 

[alby]

A JS script to detect browsers? 

Look this

Alby

[Dr.CSS]

Great find alby...

[SN3]

Thanks for the link!  How can I combine the detection script with changing the template on the page?

[SN3]

Any updates on how to do external template selection?

[alby]

Any updates on how to do external template selection?

IMHO
Current I don't think is possible.
Maybe you can redirect (after browser detection) to new wap page

Alby