[Koha-devel] RFC: Improved book covers

[Nicholas van Oudtshoorn]

Finally managed to get access to the library system again. Please find 
attached a version of my new cover system rebased to Koha 3.4.2. There 
are still a few places where things can be tidied up. Thinking about it, 
moving the cover caching system from php to perl would give some really 
nice benefits - such as pre-normalised ISBNs.. Still, my perl-fu is not 
*that* strong (yet!) <grin>

Any questions etc. please let me know.

Fare-ed thee well,
Nick

On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 9:32 PM, Ian Walls 
<ian.walls at bywatersolutions.com <mailto:ian.walls at bywatersolutions.com>> 
wrote:

    Nick,


    That'd be great; save us from having to do some rebasing for
    Template Toolkit.


    -Ian


    On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 8:46 AM, Nicholas van Rheede van Oudtshoorn
    <vanoudt at gmail.com <mailto:vanoudt at gmail.com>> wrote:

        Thanks Ian! If you like, I can provide an updated version
        (running on
        3.4.2 rather than 3.2) next week when I get back to the server...

        Nick

        On 8/12/11, Ian Walls <ian.walls at bywatersolutions.com
        <mailto:ian.walls at bywatersolutions.com>> wrote:
         > Nick,
         >
         >
         > Very interesting!  I look forward to poking around in it, and
        seeing what
         > could be integrated into Koha.  Thanks for sharing!
         >
         >
         > -Ian
         >
         > 2011/7/25 Nicholas van Rheede van Oudtshoorn
        <vanoudt at gmail.com <mailto:vanoudt at gmail.com>>
         >
         >> Hi all,
         >>
         >> We've been avid users of Koha here at Perth Bible College
        for quite a few
         >> years now. Recently, I've done some work to improve the book
        cover system
         >> here at PBC. A lot of our records lack ISBN records (BAD
        library practices
         >> in the old library system!), and I really wanted something
        nicer than a
         >> "cover not found" image. The result (attached) is an
        html/css book cover
         >> generating system - which also locally stores covers
        attained from
         >> librarything and openlibrary, redirecting to an amazon image
        if no cover
         >> is
         >> found. Unfortunately, it's in php - since I'm more familiar
        with that. :(
         >> The kernel for the system (though it's been *heavily*
        modified is courtesy
         >> a
         >> script by Art Zemon from 2008.
         >>
         >> We also put together a newbooks display. The results can be
        seen on the
         >> landing page: http://library.pbc.wa.edu.au/ - (and there
        you'll see that
         >> even some of our "new" books don't have ISBNs! <groan>)
         >>
         >> Hoping this might be of use to someone else. Something like
        the html/css
         >> book cover system could, in my opinion, be very useful...
         >>
         >> Nick van Oudtshoorn
         >> Perth Bible College
         >>
         >>
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