Hack Fest 2010

PHP Hackfest Cheat Sheet

Here's a Koha already set up we can use - http://opac.koha.workbuffer.org:9998/
Koha uses an open standard from the US Library of Congress called SRU - Search/Retrieval by URL.
Using the Z39.50 Explain protocol, we can "self-discover" the Koha catalog search interface, by parsing the XML returned from
- http://opac.koha.workbuffer.org:9998/?version=1.1&operation=explain
using the <database> element, we can construct a search URL:
- http://opac.koha.workbuffer.org:9998/biblios?version=1.1&operation=searchRetrieve&query=fish
which will return the number of results:
- <zs:numberOfRecords>178</zs:numberOfRecords>
Then we can grab (e.g.) 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