django-mobile-helper

Helps django developers to support mobile users, features:

• Detection of requests starting with m. or mobile.yoursite.com
• Detection of requests with HTTP_USER_AGENT of mobile browsers
• Decorator to provide a simple way provide template for mobile devices

See project page for more.

Installation

Download the code; put in into your project’s directory,
if you want a system-wide instalation you can run

python setup.py install

or

sudo easy_install django-mobile-helper

REQUIREMENTS: django !

SETTINGS.py

MOBILE_PATTERN

Regular expression to match mobile user in HTTP_USER_AGENT header.
default: (up.browser|up.link|mmp|symbian|smartphone|midp|wap|phone|windows ce|pda|mobile|mini|palm|netfront)

USAGE

MIDDLEWARE

In your settings.py add:

	MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = (

		(…) #your middleware classes

		# if you added to you project’s folder:

		‘your_project.django_mobile.middleware.MobileMiddleware’ 

		# if you installed on site-packages:

		‘django_mobile.middleware.MobileMiddleware’ 

	)		

	

DECORATOR

You can use it in any view function:

	from django_mobile.middleware import MobileMiddleware

	@login_required

	@render_to(template=‘desktop.html’, mobile_template=‘mobile_template.html’)

	def view_function(request):

		(…) # do your stuff here

		return locals()