Hi,

I've recently built a nifty web app for my company - it's a project management web where we can enter our meetings, projects, deadlines and other things. Now this would be even better if I could just figure out a way to get meetings, contacts and notes to sync with a Palm somehow.

Using AvantGo is an option but that will just generate web pages on the Palm device and not actually creating the datebook entries or anything such in the Palm. Is there anybody out there who has done something similar to this and has any pointers?

What I'm looking for is probably some application which installs on Windows and Mac and which fetches a ceratain URL on any Hotsync with an XML or any kind of file containing the entries I want to sync.

Thanks,
Mans

    There's a library called PHP-PDB that can generate pdb database files on-the-fly. You can combine the generated data and php-pdb's libraries with jpilot-sync or something like that, or just generate the file and then send it to the windoze box, Palm Desktop should take care of it.
    With some hard work you should get some nice results. Don't forget to post them here or send me a mail! 🙂

      2 months later

      I have to do the same as you and i encoutered problems with this php-pdb lib...

      actually I can't translate the pdb file to simple datas that i could save in an SQL database.

      everything I get is some datas in hexa.

      I'm trying improve this lib in this way.

      If someone has alraedy done that it would be nice he mails me

      mino

      Mans wrote:

      Hi,

      I've recently built a nifty web app for my company - it's a project management web where we can enter our meetings, projects, deadlines and other things. Now this would be even better if I could just figure out a way to get meetings, contacts and notes to sync with a Palm somehow.

      Using AvantGo is an option but that will just generate web pages on the Palm device and not actually creating the datebook entries or anything such in the Palm. Is there anybody out there who has done something similar to this and has any pointers?

      What I'm looking for is probably some application which installs on Windows and Mac and which fetches a ceratain URL on any Hotsync with an XML or any kind of file containing the entries I want to sync.

      Thanks,
      Mans

        As was previously mentioned, check out PHP-PDB at www.sourceforge.net.

        My company has a web form which enters data into a SQL server. We originally wrote this entire thing in ASP. We have an ASP script which queries the database, and generates a custom PalmOS PDB file. You can check it out at www.mobiliware.com (look at PocketExams -> Create-An-Exam).

        I am now in the process of converting this to PHP and mySQL. I have taken the PHP-PDB code as a start, but needed to do some modification to accept our data types.

        Good luck!

        -Marc Campbell
        marc@mobiliware.com

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