Re: [VuFind-Tech] Zend methodology for external data

[Alan R. <ala...@mn...>]

Hello,

I'm just wondering if this is all a lot of over kill?

Do the MARC records have series fields in them? 
(400:410:411:440:490:800:810:811:830)

I create 2 indexes from this field. One includes $v - the volume/number, 
one does not include $v

This way I have an index of just the series that I can build a link 
with. Click on the link from the field that does not include the $v and 
you get all of the bibs that belong to that series.

al

On 07/22/2013 09:35 AM, Demian Katz wrote:
>
> This is a bit of an unusual case, and there are different ways you 
> could do it....
>
> One thing you almost certainly want is a new controller for displaying 
> the series list -- this will populate the lightbox that pops up when a 
> link is clicked (and probably should also be able to display the 
> series list "inline" for non-JS support, since nearly all the rest of 
> VuFind works without JS too, and because of the way VuFind lightboxes 
> work, supporting both ways is trivial).
>
> The choice comes in how you get the series information onto the page.  
> I can think of at least three approaches:
>
> 1.)The easy/modular way: build it as a "related record" module. This 
> is clean and stands alone well... but it limits your display to a box 
> on the sidebar, which may not be what you want.
>
> 2.)The view helper way: building a view helper gives you pretty good 
> flexibility for displaying the information wherever you want...  but 
> it's not quite as well-isolated as using a "related record" module 
> because you're going to have to call that helper from the views 
> regardless of whether or not it is turned on -- which adds overhead 
> for everybody when presumably this feature is more of an edge case.
>
> 3.)The record driver way: create a custom method on the record driver 
> that pulls the information, and then call the method from the 
> template.  I don't really like this idea much at all, since it has the 
> same disadvantages as #2 while also putting some very specific logic 
> into the record driver... but it's still an option.
>
> Hopefully this is helpful!
>
> - Demian
>
> *From:*Joe Atzberger [mailto:jo...@bo...]
> *Sent:* Friday, July 19, 2013 9:08 PM
> *To:* vufind-tech Tech
> *Subject:* [VuFind-Tech] Zend methodology for external data
>
> One of the data enhancement projects I'm working on involves 
> supplemental metadata providing series information.  Basically we have 
> 2 webservice calls: get series ID by ISBN, and get ISBNs by series ID. 
>  VuFind already supports pulling series data from MARC, but this is a 
> cleaner and easier approach (e.g., don't need to update previous 
> titles when sequels come out, doesn't require advanced cataloging, 
> etc.).  Presentation would have two parts: in details page ("3rd of 7 
> books in the <a>Harry Potter</a> series") with link to a new lightbox 
> or landing page "list" view of the series.
>
> Unlike cover images and reviews, this is something not already 
> implemented, so I am curious how to structure the various parts. 
>  Should I build a helper like 
> module/VuFind/src/VuFind/View/Helper/Root/Series.php for fetching the 
> data?  Or extend Related/Similar ?
>
> Again I'm starting from a hacked together everything-in-template 
> implementation that I want to make cleaner before sending upstream.
>
> --joe
>
>
>
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