The one thing you got to remember about php is that it has always been closer to a template system than anything and will still hold that functionality with version 4, 5, and beyond. Thus, all you have to do is format your php files in a right manner with this in mine. XHTML is the widest available standard, while WML is being pushed aside as a unusful relic of the third generation Cellular phones, yes Cellular not the current "Smart" phones(ie pda w/web+music player and a cellular phone in one). See this wikimedia article, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mobile_Web_Standards_Evolution_Vector.svg Now to answer your questions, yes php can support both. Why well as I stated earlier it can output what ever manner of markup language you can conceive simply by having the needed data from the database handler echoed out in the right places. An example of this would be; [code: controller.php] <?php $res = $db->query("SELECT * FROM pages WHERE name='index';"); ... switch($_GET['format']) { case "xml": //xmlrpc API include "templates/view-xml.inc.php"; break; case "json": //JSON API include "templates/view-json.inc.php"; break; case "rss": //rss aggragated feed include "templates/view-rss.inc.php"; break; case "wml": //pre-2006 mobile phones include "templates/view-wml.inc.php"; break; default: //By default use semanticly correct XHTML include "templates/view-html.inc.php"; break; ?> [code: view-wml.inc.php] <card id="main" title="First Card" <?= $res['content']; ?> </card> [code: view-html.inc.php] <html> <head><title>First Card</title></head> <body><a name="main"></a><?= $res['content']; ?></body> </html> [/code] Now with that said, the best of practice these days is to use a sub domain either m.example.com or mobile.example.com and have that load in an alternate css and the same html with slightly larger font. So, all in all it really comes down to is when people surf the web they want the same web that they have on thier computer not two or three just based on what device they have. I hope this helps. Cheers, Dwight Spencer (Denzuko) <denzuko@xxxxxxxxxxxx> http://denzuko.wordpress.com/
