[CODE4LIB] Rails

2007-07-27 Thread Carol Bean
I started playing around with Rails a couple years ago, then got sidetracked. Now I have a project I'd like to put into Rails, and need to get back up to speed. I have an electronic copy of the original Pragmatic Programmers book on Rails, but there are now several other books out (as well as a

Re: [CODE4LIB] The path to becoming a Web guru?

2007-07-27 Thread Dan Field
On 24 Jul 2007, at 17:45, Sharon Foster wrote: I'm a former embedded software engineer and a current library student, trying to get up to speed on all this Web stuff. This question is not part of any class project, but just for my own curiosity. How did you all come to be so heavily involved in

[CODE4LIB] code4lib.org hosting

2007-07-27 Thread Ed Summers
As you may have seen or experienced code4lib.org is down for the count at the moment because of some hackers^w crackers who compromised anvil and defaced various web content and otherwise messed with the operating system. anvil is a machine that several people in the code4lib community run and pay

[CODE4LIB] parse an OAI-PHM response

2007-07-27 Thread Andrew Hankinson
Hi folks, I'm wanting to implement a PHP parser for an OAI-PMH response from our Dspace installation. I'm a bit stuck on one point: how do I get the PHP script to send a request to the OAI-PMH server, and get the XML response in return so I can then parse it? Any thoughts or pointers would be

Re: [CODE4LIB] parse an OAI-PHM response

2007-07-27 Thread John McGrath
You could use either the PEAR HTTP_Request package, or the built-in fopen/fread commands, which can make http calls in addition to opening local files. The easiest way, though, in my opinion, is file_get_contents, which automatically dumps the response into a String object. And it's fast,