Downloadable Mobile Phone Content and Customisation...

01 Jun 2006, 15:35

#1

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Downloadable Mobile Phone Content and Customisation...

2 Questions that I could not find the answer do by doing a search within the forums

1. How can I allow paid up customers to download Mobile phone content straight to their phones? Has anyone got any suggestions how I might get this working?

2. on my site http://www.savagesoftware.com.au/store/ how can I get rid of the background image at the top of the page ( behind my logo ) and also the ZenCart advert at the very bottom of the page?

Thanks.

04 Jun 2006, 17:11

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masterblaster

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Re: Downloadable Mobile Phone Content and Customisation...

I am not sure how this mobile thing works. Wouldn't they need UMTS or something similar? Let a mobile phone expert tell you how.....

But the second questions is something you can do quickly. In your template folder open up your style sheet and edit the lines where it reads

TABLE.header {
  background-image: url(../images/header_bg.jpg);
  background-repeat: repeat-x;
  background-color: #ffffff;
  border-right: 1px solid #9a9a9a;
  border-left: 1px solid #9a9a9a;
  border-bottom: 1px solid #9a9a9a;
}

to read the following

TABLE.header {
  background-repeat: repeat-x;
  background-color: #ffffff;
  border-right: 1px solid #9a9a9a;
  border-left: 1px solid #9a9a9a;
  border-bottom: 1px solid #9a9a9a;
}

and the background will be removed.

05 Jun 2006, 12:52

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savage

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Re: Downloadable Mobile Phone Content and Customisation...

Hi masterblaster,
thanks for your response on the back ground image issue.

Do any Mobile phone experts lurk on these forums?

05 Jun 2006, 22:12

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masterblaster

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Re: Downloadable Mobile Phone Content and Customisation...

So far that I can think of is that you get a service provider for sending SMS and then send a SMS with a temp link to the downloads created by zen-cart for download.

Maybe you can use the WAP protocol to handle this... you might want to google on methods on how to send files to a mobile.

This would require some extra coding but should be doable.

06 Jun 2006, 03:22

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tajul_ashyqin

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Re: Downloadable Mobile Phone Content and Customisation...

you should use wap protocol in order to do it!:smile: i'd developed one WAPsite few years ago but never did what you just trying to do...i think it would be wise for you to dig a little bit about how WAP works...! good luck...:thumbsup:

06 Jun 2006, 08:41

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masterblaster

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Re: Downloadable Mobile Phone Content and Customisation...

I did a little research myself because I was somehow interested in how it works.

You could use a WAP gateway like clickatell.com to use WAP push and send the files over to the mobile number you specify. This could be extended to use zen-cart to send files to a mobile with a cronjob.

If you me to help you, feel free to pm me. I have good rates :wink2:

01 Dec 2006, 23:20

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Re: Downloadable Mobile Phone Content and Customisation...

WAP is on the decline and Symbian may have trouble keeping its lead (depends on how long Nokia can hold on). there are more advanced technologies emerging that take advantage of the wireless market juggernaut.

ASIDE: #1OSU beats #2Michigan! woooooooooohooooooooooo!

05 Nov 2007, 19:29

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grandpagenocide

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Re: Downloadable Mobile Phone Content and Customisation...

this post is kind of old, but i am sort of in the same situation. I am selling cellular games and ringtones. and am trying to email a link directly to the download as the download button through a cell browser downloads the index.php and not the actual download. Did you finally get it working like u wanted? and how

06 Nov 2007, 02:20

#9

savage

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Re: Downloadable Mobile Phone Content and Customisation...

I never did get it working, but have decided to offer just normal PC game downloads from our site ( http://games.savagesoftware.com.au ) for now. If Zen Cart ever does a .mobi version of their excellent software, then I'll integrate mobile games as well.

If you get the emailing of the direct download to the customer working, I'd be interested in knowing how you did it, because by default you can't access the downloads directly as that URL is password protected. You would need to send the customer some kind of login info which would only work for them. Also doing that would mean you have to put something else in place to restrict the number of times the customer can download the game/ringtone.
Anyway keep me posted.