[WEB4LIB] Re: PHP anyone?

[Sebastian Hammer]

Hi,

I hope I'll be forgiven for adding a plug, but you should be aware that PHP 
also includes support for the Z39.50 protocol, which allows you to build 
interaction with your own or others' library catalogues (provided they are 
Z39.50-enabled) right into your own websites. It's a neat way to experiment 
with different kinds of interfaces. It does require the addition of an 
extra (free) module to the PHP engine.

The "PHP Black Book" contains both reference and tutorial material for how 
to implement access to bibliographic (or other) systems using Z39.50.

Reference:

Moulding, Peter
PHP Black book
ISBN: 1-58880-053-9

See also www.php.net/yaz/.

All the best,

--Sebastian

At 06:53 13-03-2002 -0800, Thomas Dowling wrote:
>At 07:41 AM 3/13/2002, Peter Scott wrote:
> >I've been testing out some PHP scripts to use on my various websites,
> >particularly those that can be used instead of javascript, and which don't
> >require interaction with a database. I've been downloading them from
> >http://www.hotscripts.com and http://www.phpbank.net
> >
> >Questions: has anyone else been doing this? are you using these scripts on
> >your sites? do you have examples? is there any reason NOT to use them?
>
>I can't speak for these particular scripts, but I've become a PHP fan in
>general.  Only knock against it recently was a security hole posted last
>week: make sure you have installed the required upgrade or patch from
>www.php.net.
>
>I find it interesting that you're specifically targeting scripts that don't
>interact with databases.  I originally started playing with PHP because my
>antique Perl skills were giving me fits doing SQL interactions.  But for
>other tasks I still tend to think Perl first.
>
>
>
>Thomas Dowling
>OhioLINK - Ohio Library and Information Network
>tdowling at ohiolink.edu

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