Developing Mobile Services for Joomla! 1.5

Abstract

This master thesis has led to the development of a tool Mobile Base for Joomla! which offers a library of functions as well as a graphical interface. This tool is easily installed on a fresh Joomla! installation and can be used by persons that want to develop extensions for Joomla! which should offer mobile services such as sending and receiving SMS and MMS messages. Mobile gateways can be used in order to send and receive SMS and MMS messages. By using the functions provided by the library included in Mobile Base a developer does not have to understand how to use mobile gateways, instead he can focus on the unique functions that he wants to develop. The library offers functions to send basic text and multimedia messages as well as more advanced messages such as binary text messages and messages that configure the settings in a mobile phone according to the Over-The-Air Client Provisioning standard issued by the Open Mobile Alliance.