[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] ***SPAM*** Re: To Create a PHP client for OpenSRF and Evergreen

[Steve Wills]

I hope that an appearance of difficulty interfacing Evergreen to a PHP front-end doesn't stop your exploration. My understanding is that our lack of PHP solutions is a direct result of a lack of contributions. While I have not been able to find the time to implement a PHP solution personally, I work on a PHP platform of equal complexity and identical underlying technologies for the CIO council at CIO.com, full time. I frequently solve small Evergreen problems for the Balsam Consortium in Maine using PHP 'one offs' and I share David's pain in climbing the Evergreen API learning curve. Between the wiki and the work DIG has done over the past couple of years this effort will continue to get easier.

Perhaps the task can be made less daunting by narrowing the scope? For instance, rather than completely replacing the staff client, why not make a simple PHP "toolbox" with limited capability? One could start with something like a circ-mod editor that didn't rely on the Ajax for it's dynamic table builds. In general, my biggest complaint with the staff client is the way dojo draws and manages the table views in the various admin editors.


The opportunities to interface with Drupal, Wordpress, VuFind and the like are quite exciting. I am happy to consult with others who are interested in bringing their PHP solutions forward into the community? How about forming a PHP-EG group? Look for me at Evergreen 2012 if you wish to discuss a PHP interest group further. 

Steve Wills


-----Original Message-----
From: David Busby [mailto:david.busby at edoceo.com]
Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2012 05:40 PM
To: 'Evergreen Discussion Group'
Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] To Create a PHP client for OpenSRF and	Evergreen

My biggest hurdle with building a PHP based front end (on osrf-translayor) has been the object/field mapping. And folowjng that was undetstaning the 100s of API calls.
I think others would also point to the considerable amount of code that needs to be 4created in order to just provide basic auth and search functionality. And access controls as well have been rather difficult.
/djb
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On Mar 24, 2012 4:49 AM, "Virendra Kumar" <vrndrkr at gmail.com> wrote:
Hi
I am Virendra Kumar. I have some doubts as follows:-
Why Evergreen has not been integrated with popular frameworks such as
Drupal and Wordpress, as well as with library-specific applications
such as VuFind??
what problems you face while integrating Evergreen with frameworks
such as Drupal and Wordpress ???
could anybody help me to undersatnd what will be basic problem to
integrate Evergreen with other Popular frameworks
like Drupal and Wordpress ??


Thanks,
Virendra kumar


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