Hack Fest 2010

PHP Hackfest Cheat Sheet

Mahara

• Downloading Mahara
• Installing Mahara
• Mahara Coding Guidelines

Moodle

• Downloading Moodle
• Installing Moodle
• Moodle Coding Guidelines

Koha Search

1. Here's a Koha already set up we can use - http://opac.koha.workbuffer.org
2. Koha uses an open standard from the US Library of Congress called SRU - Search/Retrieval by URL.
3. Using the Z39.50 Explain protocol, we can "self-discover" the Koha catalog search interface.

http://opac.koha.workbuffer.org:9998/?version=1.1&operation=explain

This tells you that the db you want to query is biblios. So you can do something like this http://opac.koha.workbuffer.org:9998/biblios?version=1.1&operation=searchRetrieve&query=fish

Which will give you back the number of results: <zs:numberOfRecords>178</zs:numberOfRecords>

Then you can grab records 5 and 6, in Dublin Core, like this: http://opac.koha.workbuffer.org:9998/biblios?version=1.1&operation=searchRetrieve&query=fish&startRecord=5&maximumRecords=2&recordSchema=dc

Useful Links

• Twitter API
• Moodle External Search block
• Koha Integrated Library System
• SRU search protocol
• Z39.50 protocol
• Z39.50 Explain