Mobile Codes

The Mobile Codes module provides the ability to render Text, URLs or any other form of informaton as a Mobile Code, including but not limited to the QR codes and Datamatrix formats, providing a simple way of transfering said information from the screen to a Mobile phone.

Mobile Codes was written and is maintained by Stuart Clark (deciphered).
- http://stuar.tc/lark

 

Features:

• User definable and Features exportable Mobile Code Providers and Presets.
  • Defaults provided:
    • Six (6) External Providers.
    • One (1) Internal Provider (see below).
    • Three (3) to five (5) Presets (based on installed modules).
• Render Mobile Codes via:
  • CCK/Fields/Views formatters:
    • CCK/Drupal core Text module.
    • FileField/Drupal core File module.
    • ImageField/Drupal core Image module.
    • Link module.
    • plus an example Custom Formatter for extended support.
  • Input filter.
  • Drupal API Theme() call.
• Blocks:
  • Node URL block - Creates a Mobile Code of the current Node URL.
  • User vCard - Uses the vCard module to provide a vCard Mobile Code from a Nodes Author or a users profile.
  • [D6] Mobile Code generator - An Admin module optimized helper block.
• Support for:
  • [D7-DEV] Drupal core Image module - Use an Image style on the Mobile Codes.
  • [D6] Mobile Tools module - Redirect internal Mobile Code URLs to Mobile site URL.
  • [D6] Redirecting Click Bouncer module - Track URLs accessed via Mobile Codes.
  • Shorten module - Shorten URLs in Mobile Codes.

 

Required modules

• Chaos tool suite module.

 

Recommended modules

• Custom Formatters module.
• Drupal core Image module.
• Libraries API module.

 

Configuration

All configuration for Mobile Codes can be found at:
  [D6] Administer > Site configuration > Mobile Codes
  [D6] http://[www.yoursite.com/path/to/drupal]/admin/settings/mobile_codes

  [D7] Administer > Configuration > Content authoring > Mobile Codes
  [D7] http://[www.yoursite.com/path/to/drupal]/admin/config/content/mobile_codes

 

Advanced configuration

• Setting up an internal Provider with the PHP QR Code library:
  1. Download, install and enable the Libraries API module.
  2. Download the PHP QR Code library.
  3. Extract the PHP QR Code library to your Libraries directory.
     e.g. sites/all/libraries/phpqrcode
  4. Clear cached data from the Perfomance page.
       [D6] Administer > Site configuration > Performance
       [D6] http://[www.yoursite.com/path/to/drupal]/admin/settings/performance
     
       [D7] Administer > Configuration > Development > Performance
       [D7] http://[www.yoursite.com/path/to/drupal]/admin/config/development/performance

  Note: Mobile Codes will automatically detect the PHP QR Code library once installed as above and add a new PHP QR Code Provider to the list.