iDrupal: Manage Your Drupal Website From iPhone
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July 31, 2009
iDrupal: Manage Your Drupal Website From iPhone
iDrupal is a project aimed to manage your drupal websites from iPhone / ipod touch. This project is basically designed for three things:
- iDrupal module to act as a bridge for communication between your iPhone and drupal website.
- iDrupal_ui theme to for your iPhone browser.
- And an iPhone application - which is yet to be released in app store.
To install iDrupal download module from project page and extract it in your site's 'sites/all/modules' directory. Second step is to download iDrupal_ui theme and extract it in 'sites/all/themes' directory. After this enable iDrupal module from 'admin/build/modules' and iDrupal_ui theme from 'admin/build/themes'. Now when you access your website from iPhone browser iDrupal module will automatically detect your browser and set the appropriate mobile theme for mobile website. You can also configure which mobile theme to use for iPhone browser from 'admin/settings/idrupal'.
iDrupal project provides really nice admin interface to manage your website and node add forms from iPhone browser. This really gives it a look like native iPhone app.
iPhone application looks like ....
One very advanced feature coming in iDrupal iPhone app is use of image field module to upload photos from photo gallery and camera. This iPhone app has very cool shortcuts to admin areas and handy node add forms. iDrupal is themeable so you can theme it according to your needs.
iDrupal module and iDrupal_ui projects are currently in beta, so be careful using them on production websites
Resources to refer:
- http://www.lullabot.com/drupal-voices/drupal-voices-45-steve-mckenzie-idrupal-iphone-integration
- http://drupal.org/project/idrupal
Update: I learn more about iDrupal module and find out it doesn't use JSON calls in communicating with Drupal .. it is just theme optimized for Safari mobile browser so I have updated the post. Insights from iPhone app are added now
Ben Finklea (not verified) August 4, 2009
One of the things that I like the most about the new 3GS is the ability to upload video directly to Youtube. Is it possible in the future that we could upload video directly to Drupal? That would make me very happy. Also a Drush interface so you could actually install modules over your iphone would be cool. Not that I would use it but it would be very cool. What about live-streaming audio/video from your iphone to Drupal? Killer ap...
Janak (not verified) August 3, 2009
Its a brilliant idea. Cant wait for you app to come out :)
Kent Bye (not verified) August 2, 2009
Great to hear this this is moving forward!
And thanks for the screenshots and update.
Steve McKenzie (not verified) August 1, 2009
thanks for the write up :)
someone else offered to help finally get this released so we should see it released very soon!
i've been way too busy to jump back on it. Also some thanks to Gurpartap for continued work on the imagefield integration which is basically good to go.
Caleb G (not verified) August 1, 2009
Hey Sumit - very interesting write up and features, and for me at least - very timely. I just downloaded the iphone SDK last night after researching it and other mobile platforms fairly thoroughly to weigh the pros and cons. I will be definitely be downloading all of this stuff and trying it out. Btw, I feel your pain about having to wait for the app to appear in the App Store. Can we get an early release through Cydia? ;-) (j/k)
Geo-encoding images/video should be doable too, eh?