Handheld

This article was written for Wired Publications’ Webmonkey. Not quite accurately titled, the tutorial shows how PHP can be used to sniff out the color depth of the device requesting an AvantGo page. Using this information, PHP can then be used to send a corresponding image to the browser; so an AvantGo user with a Palm III would get a 2-bit image with black, white, and two shades of grey, wheras an AvantGo user with a Handspring Visor Prism would get a 16-it, 65000+ color image.

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This article was written for Wired Publications’ Webmonkey. Using freely available software for PalmOS and Windows, this tutorial shows how doodles made on a PalmOS device can be transferred to PC and then vectorized using Adobe Streamline or Macromedia Flash.

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FLWFinder was a PQA (Palm Query Application, also known as "Web Clipping Application") for looking up the addresses of Frank Lloyd Wright-designed buildings from any PalmOS handheld with an internet connection. The backend consisted of a set of PHP scripts which in turn accessed a MySQL database.

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I was approached by Wrox Press to contribute to Professional PHP4 Multimedia Programming as a result of the pieces I had written for Wired Publications’ Webmonkey.

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