dear koha developers, why don't u add rss to the database? hadi http://www.khayma.com/librarians --------------------------------- Ahhh...imagining that irresistible "new car" smell? Check outnew cars at Yahoo! Autos.
On 7/05/2007, at 6:26 AM, hadi kress wrote:
dear koha developers, why don't u add rss to the database?
Hi Hadi Im not sure what you mean by adding rss to to the database. Do you mean Koha should be able to output RSS, if so, it already can. Is that what you were meaning? Chris -- Chris Cormack chris.cormack@liblime.com VP Research and Development www.liblime.com LibLime +64 21 542 131
dear Mr Chris, thanks for replaying i mean that the rss would be in the OPAC as a current awareness of the new books added to the database, so when people add this RSS to their RSS readers, they will be able to stay updated with last books. see this site as an example http://findarticles.com/p/articles/?sm=rss Chris Cormack <crc@liblime.com> wrote: On 7/05/2007, at 6:26 AM, hadi kress wrote:
dear koha developers, why don't u add rss to the database?
Hi Hadi Im not sure what you mean by adding rss to to the database. Do you mean Koha should be able to output RSS, if so, it already can. Is that what you were meaning? Chris -- Chris Cormack chris.cormack@liblime.com VP Research and Development www.liblime.com LibLime +64 21 542 131 --------------------------------- Food fight? Enjoy some healthy debate in the Yahoo! Answers Food & Drink Q&A.
Im not sure what you mean by adding rss to to the database. Do you mean Koha should be able to output RSS, if so, it already can.
I can't quite figure out how to enable the RSS feeds, which would be very nice. I have read the README, but I'm still unclear how to set the lastAcquired.conf file. When I have worked with other RSS feeds, I take an XML feed and pass it through a template. But I can't find the XML output here, or am I missing something? Thanks, Jim James Weinheimer j.weinheimer@aur.edu Director of Library and Information Services The American University of Rome via Pietro Roselli, 4 00153 Rome, Italy voice- 011 39 06 58330919 ext. 327 fax-011 39 06 58330992
Im not sure what you mean by adding rss to to the database. Do you mean Koha should be able to output RSS, if so, it already can.
I can't quite figure out how to enable the RSS feeds, which would be very nice. I have read the README, but I'm still unclear how to set the lastAcquired.conf file.
RSS in Koha current releases is REALLY rough at this stage. It's unfortunate, because there's a significant technical barrier to getting them working. These are some of the steps you have to take: 1. Edit the template (e.g. lastAcquired.tmpl) and replace the <link> URL with that of your OPAC. 2. Edit the configuration file (e.g. lastAcquired.conf) to change some generalized info that displays in the user's feed reader: -- title= [whatever you want the title of the feed to be] -- link= [the web "homepage" for the feed, OPAC home page?] -- url= [a web-accessible image that serves as an 'icon' for the feed 3. Set up a cron job that runs 'rss.pl' at regular intervals. When rss.pl is run, it writes an output file in XML format (e.g. lastAcquired.xml). The trouble is, by default it publishes that file right in the /rss directory, where it isn't web-accessible. That means you have to move it, change the configuration to publish it somewhere else, or set up a symlink. Then, after you get all that working, you find that the lastAcquired feed lists duplicate entries because it queries the items table and pulls entries for each copy. The other developers can correct any inaccuracies in this description--it's been a while since I tried to mess with Koha's RSS. But the point still stands: Not very useful yet! -- Owen -- Web Developer Nelsonville Public Library http://www.athenscounty.lib.oh.us
On 7/05/2007, at 9:11 PM, Owen Leonard wrote:
Im not sure what you mean by adding rss to to the database. Do you mean Koha should be able to output RSS, if so, it already can.
I can't quite figure out how to enable the RSS feeds, which would be very nice. I have read the README, but I'm still unclear how to set the lastAcquired.conf file.
RSS in Koha current releases is REALLY rough at this stage. It's unfortunate, because there's a significant technical barrier to getting them working. These are some of the steps you have to take:
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The other developers can correct any inaccuracies in this description--it's been a while since I tried to mess with Koha's RSS. But the point still stands: Not very useful yet!
Yep thats one way of doing it. The other way is to create an rss (or indeed any xml) template for the page you want. For example if you had an rss template for the search results screen you could have an rss feed of the results of any search, including the last acquired one. Or you can do what the current NPL koha has done. http://search.athenscounty.lib.oh.us/search?q=fish (this is only in dev_week at the moment as far as I know) I think the having a set of templates for the pages you want is probably the best way to go, if someone who knew the syntax wanted to have a go at that, it could be added really fast. Chris -- Chris Cormack chris.cormack@liblime.com VP Research and Development www.liblime.com LibLime +64 21 542 131
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