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=== Plan ===
 
=== Plan ===
  
To get Moodle working with Koha.
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To get Moodle (open-source learning management system) working with Koha (open-source integrated library system).
  
 
;First Step: Let's start by extending the Moodle [http://cvs.moodle.org/contrib/plugins/blocks/extsearch/ External Search block] to query a Koha library system and display the returned records of Koha books.
 
;First Step: Let's start by extending the Moodle [http://cvs.moodle.org/contrib/plugins/blocks/extsearch/ External Search block] to query a Koha library system and display the returned records of Koha books.

Latest revision as of 22:52, 23 July 2010

The 2010 PHP Hackfest Cheat Sheet!

Mahara Project

Plan

To integate Status Net, the open-source "host-your-own" Twitter, into Mahara, an open source e-portfolio system.

First Step
A block to follow a twitter tag.

Useful Links

Moodle Project

Plan

To get Moodle (open-source learning management system) working with Koha (open-source integrated library system).

First Step
Let's start by extending the Moodle External Search block to query a Koha library system and display the returned records of Koha books.

Koha Search

  1. Here's a Koha already set up we can use - no Koha set up required (phew!):
  2. Koha uses an open standard from the 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:
  4. by parsing the XML response, we can use the <database> element (in this case, "biblios") to construct a search URL:
  5. which will return the number of results:
    • <zs:numberOfRecords>178</zs:numberOfRecords>
  6. Then we can grab (e.g.) records 5 and 6, in Dublin Core, like this:

Useful Links