Libraries and Leadership
Spent most of the morning just cleaning up the code and removing all extraneous code and then started to think about hold status information Getting the status of an item that is placed on hold required a that I write a new web service. I have called it hold_status.pl and you just pass it the …
It’s been a couple of weeks since I have had a chance to code on this project. Over the last day and a half I have managed to beat my head against the brick wall of renewals and holds but these two pieces are now working. I have made some other changes. The most important …
Well with a little debugging on the locum_sirsi_3125.php I managed to get 1000 files uploaded and we can search. Yippeee!!!!
Today we are having some problems importing data. One of the issues is that Sirsi and III don’t completely translate as far as being able to export data. This means we have some data that is incomplete at this point. We are going to go into the schema and alter the locum_bib_items table and set …
We needed to install File_MARC package. You need to do this doing the pear install and since it is beta code you need to follow these steps pear config-set preferred_state beta pear install File_MARC-0.2.3 pear config-set preferred_state stable. Now off to the harvest.php code
I think that Sopac needs clean URL’s configured to function properly. To enable clean URL you are going to need to do the following. Edit the file /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default. Find the section for your document directory. Don’t get confused by editing the section that is the document root. Mine looks like. <Directory /var/www/html> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks …
Today we want to create a search box. The first thing we need to do is enable the Php filter module. This allows us to embed php snippets into the page node. This is done at Administer->Site building->Modules->Php filter Make sure that you are logged in as the Admin user and create a page. Create …
Today we worked on the connectors and were able to connect to the sirsi system.
So what are we doing today? Well we are off to John’s SOPAC site to download his sample data set and try and import it into Sphinx. I just downloaded it to my directory /home/sean/mydownloads Why are we doing this? Well we know that John’s data works and it removes some unknowns and our …
Drupal Installation Step by Step Introduction This is a review of the steps we took to install drupal on the server and to get Sirsi/Sopac up and running. Go to John’s site for full documentation http://www.thesocialopac.net Operating System This for us was pretty clear cut, we decided to use the Ubuntu 8.0.4.1 server. The reason …