This is a very usefull plg, more in this time that information has to be avaible and accessible on-the-go...

Installed it, brought my site up on my Google phone, it worked. I asked some friends to bring the site up on their BB's and iP's and it also worked well.

This is a great and easy to install extension. It works directly after installation. Of course you have to do some work with module positions and design (via css) for the mobile site. But all technical issues are solved with this plugin!

I have compared this PDA-plugin with the other two solutions here (AutoTemplateSwitcher and WAFL) and I think, it is a superior solution, because of the more flexible (editable) and better detection of mobile user agent.

Next I found out, that it is not simple to get a good manual and I have got one at:
http://mobiforge.com/developing/story/mobile-sites-with-joomla-cms

After that, I have discovered, that there is some confusion concerning the release numbering. There is one, which has 2.1.2 in contrast to the 1.5 which is easily accessable via the download botton on JED and the developers site. But the 2.1.2 is for Joomla 1.0x and the 1.5 is for Joomla 1.5 native.

After I have checked a lot of feedback I have found a similar remark like in AutoTemplateSwitcher. You will have to edit Joomla Core with this:
In file /includes/application.php in function getTemplate (around line 289), change the line

if ($template = $this->get('setTemplate')) {

to this one

if ($template = $this->getUserState('setTemplate')) {


Kind regards
Clemens

I installed it in under 3 minutes. In under 5 minutes I had tested it and was done!

A pleasure to work with!

It is marvelous extensions like this make Joomla by FAR the BEST CMS in the WORLD!

Thank you guys!

A super job. Easy to install and worked "right out of the box."

Some basic things you should know before starting: your fancy flash menus etc. aren't going to work with the new PDA template. You'll want to update your PDA template with some basic controls or menu links to make-up for what is missing from your site. Most of the gee-whiz eye-candy stuff isn't going to work on the mobile phone of today, and just uses bandwidth, so you'll want to work on your site to ensure that unneeded modules/images/plugins etc, aren't sent needlessly to a mobile device. This is a lot less work than it sounds like.

My site looks great under iPhone and Blackberry.

A really, really great tool! I love it!

This is almost EXACTLY what I've been looking for! Now I can use this extension to upsell my clients to a mobile site. It's ridiculously easy on my part, and the site loads REALLY FAST!

My only gripe is that I lose my menus, modules, and everything. Now on my test site, you can only get to 2 pages on my 50+ pages. I'm going to alter the PDA template that came with this to fix that though.

That's right, a PDA template comes FREE with this extension!

All in all, I'm very impressed with this extension so far. Where's the "donate" button so that I can buy this developer some lunch?

No documentation. Not easy to configure or use. Unable to use directories as redirect.

I'm just writing the review to help those with the same problem as mine. When we were testing the pda version of the website it was loading the Pda template in the Internet Explorer(But with firefox worked fine)

The solution is written in joomla forum (http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?f=41&t=371889) by ddmobley:

You just have to open the file (pdabot.php) and change from "nec" to "nec-"

Besides this little problem it works perfectly.

I have this in my J1.0.15 sures too.
Is perfect for switch from default template/home to pda dedicated ones.
I've hacked the code to switch for pda and iphone differently.
Just a note for a little bug in Jommla 1.5 version
$mainframe->setTemplate($template);
does not affect any template change in Joomla 1.5.
Substitute this command with
$mainframe->setUserState('setTemplate', $template);
... And all works...

A perfect plugin to make your website compatible with mobile phone devices.

The bad thing is that the pages fail the W3C XHTML Mobile Profile 1.0 validation test very badly beacuse of the JavaScripts and tables used in the pages.

Also if the images used in your articles are large, it would make the plugin useless.

Thank you so much for the plugin, and it worked like hell..!!!

At first it was a little difficult for me to correctly configure it, but after a little sturggle, managed to set it up correctly

U saved my life, Tanx again...!!!

a perfect plugin for anyone who wants to make a mobile version of his joomla.

I am very happy with this plugin. Install order is important. I needed to install the template first and the plugin second to avoid errrors. The, getting it going was totally straightforward.

Does anyone know how I can have a link within the PDA displayed page/s so that the PDA user can choose to go to the standard web pages instead? I have Nokia E61i and E71s and they work well on the full web pages, so that option would be nice as well as being able to go back to the PDA pages.

I am sure it is simple, but others might also find this useful so any hints would be appreciated.

Overall an excellent Plugin which will become more and more useful as PDAs proliferate.

Regards,
Dave

This plug in is awesome! Working great on default Nokia E51 Symbian browser, Opera Mini MOD 3.10 and Opera Mini 4.1. Great Work!

Great job! this is just exactly what I needed, it works just flawlessly. Installed fine, no issues, no bugs...

Does exactly what it says. Installed very easily and works out of the box! It made a huge difference visually to my website when I surf using my pda. I'm very impressed with this extension.

Excellent plugin&template! Very easy to install and setup.

This plugin makes the web site much easier to access, even if you have a mobile that can display normal web pages - layout is adjusted to device with a small screen, very easy to navigate and read!