wurfl/wurfl-dbapi

The WURFL OnSite DB API

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README

ScientiaMobile WURFL API, Database Edition (formerly Tera-WURFL) http://www.scientiamobile.com/ http://www.tera-wurfl.com/

ABOUT THE SCIENTIAMOBILE WURFL API, DATABASE EDITION

The Database-Edition WURFL API is a PHP library with database backend support for MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server and MongoDB that uses the Wireless Universal Resource File (WURFL) to detect the capabilities of mobile devices. This API is copyrighted by ScientiaMobile, and was originally written by Steve Kamerman, COO of ScientiaMobile, Inc.

Read more about Tera-WURFL and download the latest release at: http://www.tera-wurfl.com/

LICENSE This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

Please refer to the COPYING file distributed with this package for the complete text of the applicable GNU Affero General Public License.

If you are not able to comply with the terms of the AGPL license, commercial licenses are available from ScientiaMobile, Inc at http://www.ScientiaMobile.com/

INSTALLATION

  1. Copy the files into a directory on your webserver that can be accessed from the Internet. For the purposes of explanation I will refer to this location as http://yourserver.com/Tera-Wurfl/, with a local directory of /var/www/Tera-Wurfl/.
  2. Open a web browser and go to: http://yourserver.com/Tera-Wurfl/admin/install.php you should see the "Tera-WURFL Installation" page with a bunch of errors on it. The next steps will show you how to correct these errors. You can refresh this page to verify that your changes have taken effect.

CONFIGURATION FILE 3. Copy TeraWurflConfig.php.example to TeraWurflConfig.php, then edit it. Each setting is described in comments. The only thing you NEED to modify is the database info (user, pass, db, etc).

FILE PERMISSIONS 4. By default, the DATADIR is set to "data/". This directory holds the wurfl.xml file, your patch file(s) and the log file. This directory and EVERYTHING in it needs to be accessible (read+write) by the user that runs your webserver. This is normally "apache", "www-data" or "nobody" in Linux. (chown -R apache:apache ./data/) 5. Verify that the permissions errors on the installation page are fixed by refreshing the browser.

DATABASE OPTIONS 6. Create a new database for Tera-WURFL and a user that has a minimum of the following privileges on the new database: SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, CREATE, DROP, ALTER, CREATE TMP TABLE, CREATE ROUTINE, ALTER ROUTINE, EXECUTE 7. In the config file, set the DB_HOST, DB_USER, DB_PASS and DB_SCHEMA. 8. Verify that the database errors on the installation page are fixed by refreshing the browser. If the database tables don't exist yet they will be created for you when you load the WURFL file.

LOADING THE Tera-WURFL DATABASE 9. If you are satisfied with the results on the installation page, you can load the database with the WURFL data. There are three sources that the data can come from: a. Your local WURFL file This will load the DATADIR/wurfl.xml file into your database. b. The current released WURFL This will download the current wurfl.xml file from the official WURFL website and load it into your database. c. The current CVS WURFL This will download the current unreleased CVS wurfl.xml file from the official WURFL website and load it into your database. 10.There will be a delay while the server loads/downloads the WURFL, then you should see something like this:

Database Update OK

Total Time: 10.211848974228 Parse Time: 0.43991899490356 Validate Time: 2.7456870079041 Sort Time: 1.3005568981171 Patch Time: 0.44084501266479 Database Time: 3.9245390892029 Cache Rebuild Time: 1.3603019714355 Number of Queries: 294 PHP Memory Usage: 213.19 MB

WURFL Version: www.scientiamobile.com - 2011-06-06 WURFL Devices: 13714 PATCH New Devices: 3036 PATCH Merged Devices: 2

Update Complete!

If there are errors, they are most likely problems connecting to the WURFL site or permission problems trying to write the temporary downloaded file to the DATADIR directory. Also, many users have reported a "memory allocation" error - to fix this look for "OVERRIDE_MEMORY_LIMIT" in the config file. If there are no errors, click on "Return to administration tool".

ADMINISTRATION PAGE 11.Verify that the WURFL is loaded by clicking on "Statistics, Settings, Log File". You should see that there is data in your MERGE and INDEX tables. The CACHE table will fill up with cached data as devices access your site, and it will be cleared ONLY if you click on "Clear the device cache" from main administration page. 12.Click on "Tera-WURFL test script" to test the installation. You can type in any user agent to search for it in the WURFL. If you have caching enabled (default), the first time you search for a user agent you will see the total number of queries that Tera-WURFL performed to find a match (unless there was no match). If there was a match, the device will be cached and the next time you search for it you will see "Total Queries: 1 (Found in cache)". Tera-WURFL only needed to perform 1 query since the devices full capabilities were cached. If you go back to the admin page and look at the settings, you will see that the CACHE now has a couple rows in it. You can verify the device was cached properly by going to "Cache Browser" from the main page and clicking on your user agent.

SECURITY 13.You should delete the admin/install.php file if everything is working ok. 14.Protect your 'admin' directory by using a method specific to your web server software. For Apache, this means a .htaccess file would work: http://www.mobilefish.com/developer/apache/apache_quickguide_htaccess.html#protect

EXAMPLE Here is a very simple example:

// Include the Tera-WURFL file
require_once('./TeraWurfl.php');

// instantiate the Tera-WURFL object
$wurflObj = new TeraWurfl();

// Get the capabilities of the current client.
$wurflObj->getDeviceCapabilitiesFromAgent();

// see if this client is on a wireless device (or if they can't be identified)
if(!$wurflObj->getDeviceCapability("is_wireless_device")){
	echo "<h2>You should not be here</h2>";
}

// see what this device's preferred markup language is
echo "Markup: ".$wurflObj->getDeviceCapability("preferred_markup");

// see the display resolution
$width = $wurflObj->getDeviceCapability("resolution_width");
$height = $wurflObj->getDeviceCapability("resolution_height");
echo "<br/>Resolution: $width x $height<br/>";

The complete list of capabilities is available here: http://wurfl.sourceforge.net/help_doc.php#product_info If you use $wurflObj->getDeviceCapability("cap_name") you can just use the capability name from the WURFL site, otherwise you can access it directly from the wurfl object's capabilities array like this: $wurflObj->capabilities['group_name']['cap_name']

Please see the test script (check_wurfl.php) for another example of usage.

SUPPORT Commercial support licenses are available from ScientiaMobile at http://www.ScientiaMobile.com/ Please direct your questions to the ScientiaMobile forum at http://www.ScientiaMobile.com/forum You may also find useful information on the legacy Tera-WURFL Forum: http://www.tera-wurfl.com/forum