Forum OpenACS Q&A: Bookshelf package added

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1: Bookshelf package added
Posted by Lars Pind on 09/30/02 08:13 PM
I'm in the process of rewriting all the custom code on pinds.com.

The first result of that effort is the Bookshelf package, which has
just now been added to the OpenACS cvs repository.

To check it out, say

cvs -d :pserver:mailto:anonymous@openacs.org:/cvsroot co openacs-
4/packages/bookshelf

It's PostgreSQL only at this point, but people interested in porting
it should just post a reply here to say that they're going to do it,
and then start immediately :)

Looking forward to your response.

/Lars

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2: Response to Bookshelf package added (response to 1)
Posted by Gregor Obernosterer on 09/30/02 08:20 PM
Really great!

Now that I have my domain biowrk.net (soon online - OpenACS of course) I will for sure add my personal collection of bioinformatics and neurobiological books... just a recommendation for all addicts Biological Sequence Analysis by R. Durbin et al.

Cheers,
Gregor

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3: Response to Bookshelf package added (response to 1)
Posted by Bart Teeuwisse on 10/01/02 05:34 AM
Lars,

Thanks for contributing the Bookshelf package to OpenACS. Could you create the bookshelf module in SDM? I've got a couple of bugs & fixes to report.

/Bart

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4: Response to Bookshelf package added (response to 1)
Posted by Roberto Mello on 10/01/02 07:11 AM
I added packages for both Bookshelf and ACS Persons under the SDM. I put descriptions according to what I thought the packages did, and I may have missed/over/under-estimated. Lars and Jon, take a look and tell me if it sounds all right.

Also, we really should be getting these PostgreSQL-only packages and porting them to Oracle. Now that I have a faster machine, I'll install Oracle to play with these.

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5: Response to Bookshelf package added (response to 1)
Posted by defunct defunct on 10/01/02 10:44 AM
Lars,

Apologies for not knowing.. but what is a Bookshelf package?

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6: Response to Bookshelf package added (response to 1)
Posted by Lars Pind on 10/01/02 12:27 PM
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7: Response to Bookshelf package added (response to 1)
Posted by John Holroyd on 10/02/02 12:54 PM
Looks very exciting Lars, I know I will enjoy playing with this :)
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8: Re: Bookshelf package added (response to 1)
Posted by Venkatesh Goteti on 11/04/02 05:04 PM
The bookshelf package rocks :).. I have a silly question though.
every link I have on the package seems to have some sorta name like.....N/0877731934/ref%3Dnosim/pindsdotcom/102-....in the URL. What is this? Is this some kinda referral system/ How can a non-geek take it off, if it is...if not...no probs, then again, I was curious if someone wants to use it to manage a amazon associate section in his/her site, how do they add in their details?
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9: Re: Bookshelf package added (response to 1)
Posted by Lars Pind on 11/04/02 05:14 PM
There isn't any UI for this, but it's in this proc:

    ad_proc get_book_url {
        {-associate_id "pindsdotcom"}
        isbn
    } {

So you can pass in a different Amazon associate ID.

I didn't bother to make a UI for this, because I figured that you really want to generalize this. What if you happen to prefer Amazon.co.uk, or some other bookshop entirely.