1. Is it possible to set up a subdomain of a subdomain for a mobile site? m.site1.somedomain.com.
2. If that’s not advisable, any suggestions on how to best set up the mobile sites?

As far as I understand, Mobile Tools is dependent upon a WURFL back-end for device detection, and WURFL has changed the licensing terms for their product. May be worthwhile pausing a moment to contemplate the implications prior to implementation – basically not free for commercial use anymore, which I understand, having read their reasons (http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/wmlprogramming/message/34311), however there are cost implications that do need to be considered now. More about the new license and pricing can be found at ScientiaMobile’s website – http://www.scientiamobile.com/site/index

Kind regards

Admittedly, I should have poked around with context a bit more to work out how to create my own before writing this article. It’s not that hard. A little while after writing the article I noticed that Mobile Tools supports Context now. That might be another option.

http://mobiledrupal.com/content/using-context-module-mobile-tools-create-mobile-specific-contexts

I’m running my mobile site off a subdomain (so I have http://www.example.com and m.example.com). Both domains point to sites/example.com and then in my settings.php I do a check, and if the url starts with “m” then I set my mobile theme as the default.

I wanted to use contexts to do my block placements in my mobile theme – but as you say, it’s not easy. Possible, though! First, I added the following to settings.php


$parts = explode('.', $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']);
if ($parts[0] == 'm') {
$conf['theme_default'] = 'fusion_mobile';
$conf['site_frontpage'] = 'mobile';
}


That sets the theme as default and gives me a custom frontpage that I want to show for mobile devices.

Then I created my context and did the block placements for it. Note: I didn’t add any conditions to activate the context, since I’m going to do that in a module, like so:


function mymodule_init() {
if ($GLOBALS['conf']['theme_default'] == 'fusion_mobile') {
$context = context_load('ui_mobile_sitewide');
context_set('context', 'ui_mobile_sitewide', $context);
}
}


…and that loads my context whenever my theme is active. It works with aggressive page caching too.

You might want to consider a more lightweight approach and hide menu options using CSS and JS. If the two sites are different only for the menu options, you could hide the options for iPhone/iPad users by testing the device client side and then setting display:none for the menu items. This would stop you from having to cache two mobile sites which were essentially the same.

Hope that helps.

We are a kids site that uses primarily Flash to build educational games and are trying to find a way to hide that section from iPhone and iPad users and only use one theme for mobile via domain access module.

Is there a way to set a global variable via browser detection per user to hide 2 elements of an navigation or load a different drupal menu call?

So the navigation would be:

iPhone iPad user
Homepage | Apps | Schedule | Contact

Android, RIM Users
Homepage | Games | Videos | Apps | Schedule | Contact

I keep running into the fact that whoever hits the page caches the device variable which doesn’t work if a user comes in with an iPad but the user who cached it had an Android device.

Any suggestions would be great.