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26 lines
1.5 KiB
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OpenSearch widget for VuFind
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This is just a rough proof-of-concept made during an [eod](https://books2ebooks.eu) hackathon back in 2011. Please do not use this in production, but merely as an inspiration!
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Since the [eod](https://books2ebooks.eu) catalog is based on the popular [VuFind](https://vufind.org) library resource discovery system you can easily adapt this for other instances as well (or basically any other [OpenSearch](http://www.opensearch.org) interface). [VuFind is open source](https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind) and developed and maintained by [Villanova University's Falvey Memorial Library](https://www.library.villanova.edu/).
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Installation
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- Adjust $eodOpenSearch in server/search.php according to your requirements.
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- Copy the server/* files to any webserver.
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- Adjust client/js/jquery.eod.js according to your requirements.
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- Add the client/js/* files to your website.
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- Take a look at client/index.html for integrating with your pages.
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Ideas
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Instead of going for a client/server approach I'd do the RSS parsing completely client-side in Javascript nowadays. The server part just adds unnecessary complexity. Back in the day I was curious about [jQuery-PHP](http://jquery.hohli.com/) and wanted to try it out. [jQuery-PHP is open source](https://code.google.com/archive/p/jquery-php/) and developed by [Anton Shevchuk](http://anton.shevchuk.name/).
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Known Issues
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The OpenSearch interface of VuFind only returns the top 50 results. There is no paging or any chance of getting more hits.
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