Sync with PalmOS?

Tracer

Does anyone have any code for syncing with a Palm Pilot over an intranet/extranet/internet to a MySQL/PHP Backend?

I Did a quick Goolge search and came up with nada......

Any suggestions?

PyroX

Why would you want to do this?

Would the Palm Pilot be connected to the sever running the code or the client?

Tracer

Client,

And as far as "Why would you want to do this"..... Consider AvantGo Mobile Pharma....

http://avantgo.com/products/businesses/workforce/applications/mobile_pharma.html

PyroX

PHP is a server side script, which means it runs on the server, and sends its output ot the client's browser.

PHP cannot communicate with anything on the client machine.

PHP can output javascript or another language.

The only thing that might be possible,,,,

Can you connect to your Palm Pilot from another computer and make it sync? If so you could learn the proto, and open a socket to do it.

Even with your example, what is the use? Why do you want a webpage to tell your Plam to sync? I do not think you have got the concept of AvantGo down in your head. Wouldn't it be easier to just cradle it and press the button?

It looks to me like software like AvantGo is using wireless internet, not web -> (sync) -> palmpilot.

( Thats a iPAQ and not a Palm Pilot, there is a HUGE difference there. )

PyroX

If you want to do the AvantGo type of thing, look into:
http://www.webreview.com/browsers/1998/10_09_98_3.shtml

Tracer

Maybe I wasn't clear, my apologies.

I want may sales reps to be able to HOT-SYNC thier palms with thier desktop at home with the palm software. Then via a Java conduit (I guess) transfer and sync their palm database to a MySQL database on a remote server.

The remote sync needs to be a true sync, not just transfer of data to the server. Newly updatd info on the server needs to move back to the palm......

Which is exactly what AvantGo Pharma/Sales will do, not AvantGo web clipping or channels.