Re: [Dspace-tech] Item import in SQL

2007-09-17 Thread Larry Stone
> > Huh? What is this good for? What is wrong with the existing > > importer? > > The importer itself seems to work fine. Its the DSpace web forms that lack > the customization and flexibility that we need. And implementing a direct > import from my own web forms would be prettier than saving the c

Re: [Dspace-tech] Item import in SQL

2007-09-14 Thread Mark Diggory
On Sep 14, 2007, at 1:43 PM, Mika Stenberg wrote: >> Huh? What is this good for? What is wrong with the existing >> importer? > > The importer itself seems to work fine. Its the DSpace web forms > that lack > the customization and flexibility that we need. And implementing a > direct > import

Re: [Dspace-tech] Item import in SQL

2007-09-14 Thread Mika Stenberg
> Huh? What is this good for? What is wrong with the existing > importer? The importer itself seems to work fine. Its the DSpace web forms that lack the customization and flexibility that we need. And implementing a direct import from my own web forms would be prettier than saving the collected

Re: [Dspace-tech] Item import in SQL

2007-09-14 Thread Mark Diggory
We do not advise working directly with SQL as the means for interacting with DSpace, rather use the DataModel, API and provided services to interact with DSpace. A great deal of effort has gone into defining an API which will allow the user to complete as much of the basic tasks as required

Re: [Dspace-tech] Item import in SQL

2007-09-14 Thread Mark Diggory
We do not advise working directly with SQL as the means for interacting with DSpace, rather use the DataModel, API and provided services to interact with DSpace. A great deal of effort has gone into defining an API which will allow the user to complete as much of the basic tasks as required

Re: [Dspace-tech] Item import in SQL

2007-09-14 Thread Christian Voelker
Am 14.09.2007 um 15:13 schrieb Mika Stenberg: > Im hoping to implement DSpace importer functionality in PHP to be used > with customized web forms. Huh? What is this good for? What is wrong with the existing importer? Why not enhancing it if you are missing some functionality? Why mix in another

[Dspace-tech] Item import in SQL

2007-09-14 Thread Mika Stenberg
Im hoping to implement DSpace importer functionality in PHP to be used with customized web forms. For this I'd like to know what kind of SQL statements I would need to execute in order to add/remove items in DB? Has anyoned tried something like this before? Thanks, Mika ---