[PHP-DEV] Re: [PHP3] PHP for PDAs (Palm Pilots and friends) From: Chad Cunningham (ccunning <email protected>)
Date: 04/02/00

Erm...

I'll believe it when I see it. Thought the announcement was made on March
31, even on that date, the site said Last Updated: 1/04/2000 aka April
Fools Day. Now, the netcraft query seems quite proof indeed, however if at
this current moment you go to netcraft and query www.yahoo.com, you will
note that it indicates that yahoo is currently running on PalmOS -
screenshot at http://www.math.ohio-state.edu/~ccunning/yahoo.jpg if
it's no longer there. Further, if you click on the PalmOS link on
netcraft's site, you'll see at the bottom a note that says "It's april the
first somewhere on the planet!". Further still, netcraft itself seems to
be running the apache module mod_april/1.0 (yet more screenshottage at
http://www.math.ohio-state.edu/~ccunning/netcraft.org). Even further,
you'll note that the "screenshots" for apache on PalmOS are in a directory
called avrilfish, which is the french term for april fools.

Barring all this overwhelming evidence of an elaborate and quite
entertaining prank, my question would be, why in the world would anyone
need/want apache and php on a palm pilot?!

On 1 Apr 2000, Manuel Lemos wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Some time ago I suggested that PHP be ported to run under hand-held PDA
> devices like Palm Pilots and friends. There is a lot of potential for PDA
> based Web applications for offline handheld devices.
>
> Just an example, imagine the distributor sales man that is going from store
> to store to taking orders from customers. An offline application based on
> the handheld device is what is most suitable for this.
>
> The advantage of Web based applications is the possibility of large code
> reuse of existing Web applications without the need to learn handheld
> specific technologies like WAP/WML or anything like that.
>
> PHP could be used for this purpose, if there was a PHP version for handheld
> devices. There are several database servers with the support for data
> replication for syncronizing data while the device was offline.
>
> Of we would need Web server that would run on the handheld device. The
> good news is that Apache was just ported to PalmOS. Look here:
>
> http://apachepda.apacheservices.com/
>
> They are looking for help on porting Perl and PHP to PalmOS. I heard that
> there are volunteers to port Perl already. I wonder if there are any
> volunteers or intention to help on porting PHP to PalmOS. It would be a
> shame if PHP would be left behind on this important breakthrough.
>
> This message is mostly addressed to PHP core developers but I think anybody
> can help. Just go to the page above.
>
> Regards,
> Manuel Lemos
>
> Web Programming Components using PHP Classes.
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