P.S. Re: Re: [Koha] Setting up a online Rental Video Library using KOHA

[Steven F.Baljkas]

Monday, December 12, 2005    17:10 CST

Hi, all,

Just a quick post scriptum to what Thomas wrote.

I had pointed out to Stephen Hedges several months back that part of the problem with relying on Amazon -- as brilliant a solution as that was -- is that Amazon is constantly shifting which book images it keeps online.

Over the course of time, it is a **certainty** that a patron would find that the familiarising image found upon a first visit to one's Koha OPAC, will not be there at a later one. Short run publications and older ones that go out-of-stock are the first to disappear.

Stephen pointed out that the code could be modified to fetch images from another website, although it would necessitate having a standard reference number for the images: I suggested using the record number from the 001 field in the MARC record as a unique identifier.

Stephen Hedges had isolated the relevant code for me several months back and my younger programmer cousin hopes to be able to modify it for me over the winter break (for us in Winnipeg, starting at the end of next week) to fetch book (and other) cover images from one's local server. He thinks this will be a simple thing to do -- for him, that is, certainly not for me -- and I hope his confidence isn't the folly of youth.

If he manages to do this for me I will send information about it back to the listserv.

Best wishes to all,
Steven F. Baljkas
library tech at large
Winnipeg, MB, Canada

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From: Thomas D <koha at alinto.com>
Date: 2005/12/12 Mon PM 03:20:24 CST
To: nobin matthew <nobin_matthew at yahoo.com>
CC: koha at lists.katipo.co.nz
Subject: Re: [Koha] Setting up a online Rental Video Library using KOHA

The code to include Amazon web services data including images in the results
page was mistakenly removed by someone revising files in the Koha concurrent
version control system HEAD.  Joshua Ferraro had written that code. 
Presumably, the developer who removed the code did not use it and had
assumed the code was unnecessary abandoned code.  Developers need to be more
careful, but its removal went unnoticed for a little while because it had
few actual users.  Joshua himself has planned to restore more complete
Amazon web services code for Koha 3.0.

The original code is still in the Koha CVS system if you wanted to
reconstruct it on your own.  Sometime after Koha 2.2.2 was released forward
revisions had removed that code.  The code had functioned in the NPL
opac-detail.tmpl and relied upon supporting module code for Amazon web
services which was also removed.  It was necessary to supply your own Amazon
web services developer's token and uncomment the relevant lines of code.


Thomas D


Quoting nobin matthew <nobin_matthew at yahoo.com> :
> ---------------- Beginning of the original message ------------------
> 
> Hi All,
> 
>       I got an idea of setting up a online rental
> video library in my city. The idea is that user will
> acess my online site and they can book the VCDs they
> want, and my agents will deliver that to their home.
> So that my video shop will get whole city as client
> base instead of a single locality.
>              Is it possible Place Still images for
> each VCD title, and if possible some preview in online
> site(OPAC).
> How to map data base to OPAC searches.
> 
> Thanks in Advance!
> 
> Nobin Mathew
> 
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