ticTOCs and embedded SFX services in OPAC

Tags: aleph , opac , rss , toc , tictocs , php , advanced , prototype
Last Updated: Oct 30, 2009 00:49

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• Description

  By using the ticTOCs Journal Table of Contents Service you can include a link to a RSS feed for a journal. You can also parse the RSS feed for a journal and display the latest articles. This example is bundled with the embedded SFX services script. But it is easy to leave out the SFX part if you wan't to.

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• Author: Daniel Forsman
• Institution: Högskolan i Jönköping
• Year: 2009

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• 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]

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• Skill required for using this code:
  Choose one of the following: advanced

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State

Stable

Programming language

Javascript (prototype), PHP

Software requirements

Protototype, PHP installed on your OPAC webserver

Screen captures

Author(s) homepage

http://julia.hj.se/F/?func=find-b-0&CON_LNG=eng

Download

See attached files. You will need sfx.php and ticTOCparser.php. Please note that you will also need the Prototype framework. Download from prototype website http://www.prototypejs.org/

Working example

http://julia.hj.se/F/?func=find-b-0&CON_LNG=eng do a search for Journal of Clinical nursing

Using the following Ex Libris open interfaces

SFX API: sfx.response_type=simplexml

Release notes

Be happy.

Installation instructions

0. Make sure that you create a id for the javascript DOM parser to read. We have edited our full-999-body so that i looks like this:

If you are using tables in full-999-body you must make sure that there is a for the table cell that you want to catch. Just repeat $0100 as a id for it.

1. Make sure you have PHP installed on your OPAC webserver.

2. Download and include the Prototype framework (www.prototypejs.org/) in your OPAC. Ours is included in meta-tags and available on all pages.

3. Create a div id where you want the SFX services to appear. Ours is in full-set-tail.
4. Include the eJULIA.js javascript either inline or by including it from a file below the id in full-set-tail is fine. Inline full-set-tail example below.

5. Upload the sfx.php to your OPAC server. Make sure that you edit the path in eJULIA.js so that it points to the sfx.php file. This file queries SFX so make sure to edit it so that it points to your SFX server and proxy. The services pulled are getCitedJournal, getFullTxt, getAbstract, getTOC. You can add or remove services easy.

6. Now that you got the function in place you need to add local ticTOCs data to parse. Save the tab delimited file from http://www.tictocs.ac.uk/text.php just save it as tictoc_text.txt or something.

7. Upload the file to your server, put it in a webdirectory. If PHP is compiled with CLI you can do the processing below in terminal/konsole. If not you need to run the scripts through a browser.

8. Edit ticTOCparser.php so that it matches your file settings. You need to create a empty file (touch tictoc.xml) and make sure it is writable.

If you have CLI just run /usr/bin/php ticTOCparser.php if no CLI direct your browser to the file. It will generate the XML file needed for parsing.

9. If you want to you can set up a CRON job that gets the file from ticTOCs with wget and then run the PHP script via CLI or by running lynx to it. You can do manual updates to when you feel like it.

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