[Koha] koha & amazon.com
Steven F.Baljkas
baljkas at mts.net
Fri Aug 18 13:56:46 NZST 2006
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
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From: "the undead" <the_real_undead at hotmail.com>
Date: 2006/08/16 Wed AM 07:19:05 CDT
To: koha at 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.
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From: "shahab bohlooli" <shahab.bohlooli at arums.ac.ir>
Date: 2006/04/17 Mon AM 08:50:16 CDT
To: "Amzari Abu Bakar" <amzari79 at yahoo.com>, <koha at 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 at lists.katipo.co.nz on behalf of Amzari Abu Bakar
Sent: Mon 2006/04/17 07:29 AM
To: koha at 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 at arums.ac.ir>
> Subject: RE: [Koha] how I can include cover images
> of books into koha?
> To: "Joshua Ferraro" <jmf at liblime.com>
> Cc: koha at lists.katipo.co.nz
> Message-ID:
>
>
<1A2560D230E1DD46AECC62EC810C61C7C3A70E at sahand.arums.ac.ir>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
>
> 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 at liblime.com]
> Sent: Fri 2006/04/14 05:47 PM
> To: shahab bohlooli
> Cc: koha at 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 at 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
> >
> > Koha mailing list
> > Koha at lists.katipo.co.nz
> > http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
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> Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2006 06:46:25 -0700
> From: Joshua Ferraro <jmf at liblime.com>
> Subject: Re: [Koha] how I can include cover images
> of books into koha?
> To: shahab bohlooli <shahab.bohlooli at arums.ac.ir>
> Cc: koha at lists.katipo.co.nz
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> Hi Shahab,
>
> The amazonratings folder contains a script for acquiring amazon
> images, but as I've never used it I can't comment on whether it works.
>
> In the next version of Koha (2.4), there is an Amazon.com module that
> automatically inserts Amazon images (if you turn it on). The images
> are pulled directly from Amazon.com as a user browses the OPAC.
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
> Joshua Ferraro VENDOR SERVICES FOR
> OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE
> President, Technology migration, training,
> maintenance, support
> LibLime Featuring
> Koha Open-Source ILS
> jmf at liblime.com |Full Demos at
> http://liblime.com/koha |1(888)KohaILS
>
> On Sat, Apr 15, 2006 at 01:31:37PM +0330, shahab
> bohlooli wrote:
> > Dear Joshua;
> > thank you for your comments,
> > in the case of including cover images from amazon.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
>
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