Re: [PHP] Book database (slightly OT)

2002-01-30 Thread Erik Price
On Tuesday, January 29, 2002, at 11:38 PM, Boaz Yahav wrote: > Why not simply look the ISBN up in one of the big online shops and take > the data from there? > Amazon? B&N? > > It all depends on what you will do with the data I guess... > A good idea, but if you're running a commercial site of

RE: [PHP] Book database (slightly OT)

2002-01-29 Thread Boaz Yahav
sage- From: Egon Schmid [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 4:02 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Steve Edberg Subject: Re: [PHP] Book database (slightly OT) From: "Steve Edberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Perhaps the Library of Congress?? >

Re: [PHP] Book database (slightly OT)

2002-01-29 Thread Egon Schmid
From: "Steve Edberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Perhaps the Library of Congress?? > > http://www.loc.gov/z3950/ > > You could hack the web interface, but it would be more efficient to > query the database directly using the Z.39.50 stateful protocol: see > > http://lcweb.loc.gov/z3950/gateway.html#abo

Re: [PHP] Book database (slightly OT)

2002-01-29 Thread Steve Edberg
Perhaps the Library of Congress?? http://www.loc.gov/z3950/ You could hack the web interface, but it would be more efficient to query the database directly using the Z.39.50 stateful protocol: see http://lcweb.loc.gov/z3950/gateway.html#about and http://www.niso.org/sta

[PHP] Book database (slightly OT)

2002-01-29 Thread Reuben D Budiardja
Hi, I am working on a projects for book cataloging. What I want to do is to input all the books isbn to a mysql table, either by hand or by scanning it, and then let php go through those data and add more info such as tittle, author, publisher, etc. Now, the real question is, does anyone know