Thursday, August 17, 2006 20:47 CDT Greetings, With apologies for not having had the energy to look this up for you yestereve, there was some discussion of the issue of cover images that may be relevant almost 4 months ago to the day. See the exchange between Shahab, Amzari and Joshua duplicated immediately following your message below. Hopefully, some of this will help lead you in the right direction. Please let the listserv know how things work out for you and what solution you are able to effect. Regards, Steven F. Baljkas library tech at large Koha neophyte Winnipeg, MB, Canada ============================================================ From: "the undead" <the_real_undead@hotmail.com> Date: 2006/08/16 Wed AM 07:19:05 CDT To: koha@lists.katipo.co.nz Subject: [Koha] koha & amazon.com [Can K]oha 2.2.5 or [...] any later versions [...] get images for the books from [A]mazon.com? In my opac I changed the def[a]ult image to an image save on my server, but this is a still photo for all the books which tells that this book's image is not available, but what if Koha is able to do that. [???] Can any Koha user tell[] me how to do that? I am using Koha 2.2.5 on Fedora core 4 and my z39.50 is working fine. Here is a link to a book in my opac so u can view it http://62.193.97.157/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?bib=15 Note: we set this system recently so there is no much book there now. ============================================================ From: "shahab bohlooli" <shahab.bohlooli@arums.ac.ir> Date: 2006/04/17 Mon AM 08:50:16 CDT To: "Amzari Abu Bakar" <amzari79@yahoo.com>, <koha@lists.katipo.co.nz> Subject: RE: [Koha] RE: how I can include cover images of books Dear Amzari; Thank you for your valuable comment, i resolved the problem by replacing: <!-- Display for NPL <!-- TMPL_IF NAME="isbn" --><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/<!-- TMPL_VAR NAME="isbn" -->.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg" alt="Book Cover Image" /><!-- /TMPL_IF --> //Display for NPL --> in file " /usr/local/koha/opac/htdocs/opac-tmpl/npl/en/opac-detail.tmpl, line=10 by: <img src="/opac-tmpl/npl/en/images/P/<!-- TMPL_VAR NAME="isbn" -->.jpg" alt="Book Cover Image" /> and it worked fine for scanned or downloaded images! thanks, -------------------------- Sincerely Yours, Shahab Bohlooli,PhD Ardabil University of Medical Sciences, Ardabil 56197,Iran Phone no: 0098-451-5512788 Fax no: 0098-451-5510057 -----Original Message----- From: koha-bounces@lists.katipo.co.nz on behalf of Amzari Abu Bakar Sent: Mon 2006/04/17 07:29 AM To: koha@lists.katipo.co.nz Subject: [Koha] RE: how I can include cover images of books Salam and Hi to all, Dear Shahab, Instead of using amazon, you can point your book cover image to image mapped to local directory. This can be done by modifying the code a little bit. You can view the sample here. (But on contrary, I disable the amazon features. You still can copy book cover from amazon and put in local directory manually). http://cdiq.dyndns.org/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?bib=3 [N.B. link no longer functioned when checked 2006-08-17 - SFB] Amzari Abu Bakar Engneering Department, Matriculation Centre International Islamic University Malaysia [snip]
Today's Topics:
1. RE: how I can include cover images of books into koha? (shahab bohlooli) 2. Re: how I can include cover images of books into koha? (Joshua Ferraro)
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Message: 1 Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2006 13:31:37 +0330 From: "shahab bohlooli" <shahab.bohlooli@arums.ac.ir> Subject: RE: [Koha] how I can include cover images of books into koha? To: "Joshua Ferraro" <jmf@liblime.com> Cc: koha@lists.katipo.co.nz Message-ID:
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Dear Joshua; thank you for your comments, in the case of including cover images from amzaon.com, in koha version 2.2.5 installation directory,I just found a folder called "amzonratings" I executed the sql script and also the perl module get_amazonrating but it seemed that nothing happened. it will your kind help if give me more comments what is the way to do this?
-------------------------- Sincerely Yours, Shahab Bohlooli,PhD Ardabil University of Medical Sciences, Ardabil 56197,Iran Phone no: 0098-451-5512788 Fax no: 0098-451-5510057
-----Original Message----- From: Joshua Ferraro [mailto:jmf@liblime.com] Sent: Fri 2006/04/14 05:47 PM To: shahab bohlooli Cc: koha@lists.katipo.co.nz Subject: Re: [Koha] how I can include cover images of books into koha?
Dear Shahab,
To date, the only book cover images that have been used with Koha are done through the Amazon.com module, available in the CVS version (and the soon to be released 2.4).
It would be quite trivial to add a feature that allowed scanned images to be linked to records, but no library has sponsored this feature. If this feature is critical for you, there are a couple options:
1. you can develop the feature and contribute it back to the Koha community
2. you can hire someone to develop and contribute it back for you. There is a list of commercial support companies for Koha here:
http://koha.org/support/pay.html
Sincerely,
-- Joshua Ferraro VENDOR SERVICES FOR OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE President, Technology migration, training, maintenance, support LibLime Featuring Koha Open-Source ILS jmf@liblime.com |Full Demos at http://liblime.com/koha |1(888)KohaILS
On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 02:58:36PM +0330, shahab bohlooli wrote:
Dear All; I have installed the koha (version 2.2.5) on my library using Linux debian (sarage) on PC platform, and I impressed of its work, anyway I could not find a way to include my own generated cover images (scanned version) of books. so any comments will be appreciated.
thanks
-------------------------- Sincerely Yours, Shahab Bohlooli,PhD Ardabil University of Medical Sciences, Ardabil 56197,Iran Phone no: 0098-451-5512788 Fax no: 0098-451-5510057
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