Generate a bibliography list via X-Server

Tags: aleph , x-server , php
Last Updated: Oct 30, 2009 00:47

Description
Create a web form for pulling a title list from the X-Server (e.g. for printing journal lists, bibliographies...) with one click – as opposed to the standard Aleph GUI-Services workflow. Example is for generating a journal list based on a fixed cataloging field. You could use the basic code to get an idea for a general X-Server query with PHP.
Author: Daniel Zimmel
Institution: Max Planck Gesellschaft
Year: 2009
License: BSD style
Short description: Use, modification and distribution of the code are permitted provided the copyright notice, list of conditions and disclaimer appear in all related material.
Link to terms: [Detailed license terms]
Skill required for using this code:
Choose one of the following: intermediate

State

Stable/In Development

PHP, (optional: XSLT)

see Page attachments.

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X-Server

1. Put the PHP files into your webspace

2. Authorize access to the X-Server (e.g., if your webspace is from an external IP)

3. Customize the script (server paths, libraries, form text, MARC/MAB fields).

4. If you like you can even include XSL-Stylesheets for the transformation

- Could need some serious code revision (it is more of a quick hack without much experience in PHP)

- Error/Exception Handling

- A generic class for querying the X-Server in PHP would be nice to have.

Reading takes some seconds when 100+ records. (The script exits by default with a message when there are more than 400 hits).

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