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Re: [refbase-talk] Export Citations

[Thackurdeen, S. <sth...@ny...>]

Wow, that was quick!

The message and the fix!

Thanks so much,
Sean

-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Karnesky [mailto:kar...@gm...] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2015 11:33 AM
To: Thackurdeen, Sean
Cc: ref...@li...
Subject: Re: [refbase-talk] Export Citations

Thanks.  You might try MODS XML--we offer native support and the data quality is much higher.

How many references are you exporting?  Zotero should detect and import refbase references without you dumping them to a file.

--Rick

On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 11:11 AM, Thackurdeen, Sean <sth...@ny...> wrote:
> Hi Rick,
>
>
>
> Many thanks for your reply.
>
>
>
> I have tried to export in RIS, Endnote, BibTex and ISI.
>
>
>
> I am currently on a 64 bit, Windows 7 Professional machine.
>
>
>
> I have tried Firefox 37, which allows me to download a 0 byte file.
>
>
>
> I am now attempting to use IE 11. First attempts show a page that 
> “cannot be displayed”.
>
>
>
> I have experimented with all or subsets of my references to no avail.
>
>
>
> Many thanks for your help,
>
>
>
> Sean
>
>
>
> P.S. I’m not sure how to send a public link of my references.
>
>
>
> From: Richard Karnesky [mailto:kar...@gm...]
> Sent: Monday, April 13, 2015 6:25 PM
> To: Thackurdeen, Sean; ref...@li...
> Subject: Re: [refbase-talk] Export Citations
>
>
>
> Have you tried exporting to other formats and/or tried to export a 
> subset of your records? Please give us more information so we can try 
> to reproduce this issue (browser/OS/link to set of references/etc.).
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rick
>
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 13, 2015, 5:49 PM Thackurdeen, Sean 
> <sth...@ny...>
> wrote:
>
> Good Day!
>
>
>
> I am trying to export my references to place in Zotero to take 
> advantage of the add-on capabilities for writing articles.
>
>
>
> However, every attempt to export the records from my www.refbase.org 
> account leaves me with a 0 byte file, regardless of file format. Only 
> the Save citation tool works. In which case, it is not usable to 
> import into other citation managers.
>
>
>
> Please help!
>
>
>
> Sean
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Re: [refbase-talk] Export Citations

[Richard K. <kar...@gm...>]

Thanks.  You might try MODS XML--we offer native support and the data
quality is much higher.

How many references are you exporting?  Zotero should detect and
import refbase references without you dumping them to a file.

--Rick

On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 11:11 AM, Thackurdeen, Sean
<sth...@ny...> wrote:
> Hi Rick,
>
>
>
> Many thanks for your reply.
>
>
>
> I have tried to export in RIS, Endnote, BibTex and ISI.
>
>
>
> I am currently on a 64 bit, Windows 7 Professional machine.
>
>
>
> I have tried Firefox 37, which allows me to download a 0 byte file.
>
>
>
> I am now attempting to use IE 11. First attempts show a page that “cannot be
> displayed”.
>
>
>
> I have experimented with all or subsets of my references to no avail.
>
>
>
> Many thanks for your help,
>
>
>
> Sean
>
>
>
> P.S. I’m not sure how to send a public link of my references.
>
>
>
> From: Richard Karnesky [mailto:kar...@gm...]
> Sent: Monday, April 13, 2015 6:25 PM
> To: Thackurdeen, Sean; ref...@li...
> Subject: Re: [refbase-talk] Export Citations
>
>
>
> Have you tried exporting to other formats and/or tried to export a subset of
> your records? Please give us more information so we can try to reproduce
> this issue (browser/OS/link to set of references/etc.).
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rick
>
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 13, 2015, 5:49 PM Thackurdeen, Sean <sth...@ny...>
> wrote:
>
> Good Day!
>
>
>
> I am trying to export my references to place in Zotero to take advantage of
> the add-on capabilities for writing articles.
>
>
>
> However, every attempt to export the records from my www.refbase.org account
> leaves me with a 0 byte file, regardless of file format. Only the Save
> citation tool works. In which case, it is not usable to import into other
> citation managers.
>
>
>
> Please help!
>
>
>
> Sean
>
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Re: [refbase-talk] Export Citations

[Richard K. <kar...@gm...>]

Have you tried exporting to other formats and/or tried to export a subset
of your records? Please give us more information so we can try to reproduce
this issue (browser/OS/link to set of references/etc.).

Thanks,

Rick

On Mon, Apr 13, 2015, 5:49 PM Thackurdeen, Sean <sth...@ny...>
wrote:

>  Good Day!
>
>
>
> I am trying to export my references to place in Zotero to take advantage
> of the add-on capabilities for writing articles.
>
>
>
> However, every attempt to export the records from my www.refbase.org
> account leaves me with a 0 byte file, regardless of file format. Only the
> Save citation tool works. In which case, it is not usable to import into
> other citation managers.
>
>
>
> Please help!
>
>
>
> Sean
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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[refbase-talk] Export Citations

[Thackurdeen, S. <sth...@ny...>]

Good Day!

I am trying to export my references to place in Zotero to take advantage of the add-on capabilities for writing articles.

However, every attempt to export the records from my www.refbase.org<http://www.refbase.org> account leaves me with a 0 byte file, regardless of file format. Only the Save citation tool works. In which case, it is not usable to import into other citation managers.

Please help!

Sean

Re: [refbase-talk] LDAP support

[Richard K. <kar...@gm...>]

Thanks, Frank.
This looks promising.
I may add it to the 'contrib' directory for now.
--Rick

On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 5:00 AM, Frank Tetzel
<s14...@ma...> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> i know this was discussed in the past[1][2] but i couldn't find
> anything in the code. That's why i added very basic support myself (in a
> quick & dirty way). The patch against the bleeding-edge branch is
> attached.
>
> It just replaces the check_login function with an LDAP authorization
> and adds the user to refbase's SQL tables when he's logging in the
> first time. Only default values are used.
>
> I'm not sure how a proper solution should look like. This one is just a
> hack.
>
>
> [1] http://sourceforge.net/p/refbase/discussion/351913/thread/0f9023c6/
> [2] http://sourceforge.net/p/refbase/discussion/218757/thread/84c0b131/
>
> Regards,
> Frank
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[refbase-talk] LDAP support

[Frank T. <s14...@ma...>]

Hi,

i know this was discussed in the past[1][2] but i couldn't find
anything in the code. That's why i added very basic support myself (in a
quick & dirty way). The patch against the bleeding-edge branch is
attached.

It just replaces the check_login function with an LDAP authorization
and adds the user to refbase's SQL tables when he's logging in the
first time. Only default values are used.

I'm not sure how a proper solution should look like. This one is just a
hack.


[1] http://sourceforge.net/p/refbase/discussion/351913/thread/0f9023c6/
[2] http://sourceforge.net/p/refbase/discussion/218757/thread/84c0b131/

Regards,
Frank

Re: [refbase-talk] Mass Import Users

[Richard K. <kar...@gm...>]

This is not officially supported. When a user account is created in
refbase, the password is hashed before being stored in the auth table
& various default options for the user are set (and these are also
stored in the user* tables).

The best course of action for you is likely to make a custom version
of 'user_validation.php' that imports the data you have.

A few other details, as you may need to clean your import list:
refbase uses email addresses as usernames (the various email functions
rely on this), splits names into first/last (though I don't think
anything will break if you misuse this), and uses an institutional
abbreviation for some stuff (so you'll likely want to make a default
one).

--Rick


On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 6:33 AM, pixluser <pix...@gm...> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I need to import 200 users from an excel file to the refbase database.
> It’s a 3 columns file with : name, user.name, password.
>
> Do you know how I can do that please ?
>
> Thanks a lot !
>
>
> // Lionel
>
>
>
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[refbase-talk] Mass Import Users

[pixluser <pix...@gm...>]

Hello,

I need to import 200 users from an excel file to the refbase database.
It’s a 3 columns file with : name, user.name, password.

Do you know how I can do that please ?

Thanks a lot !


// Lionel

Re: [refbase-talk] refbase--adding text to home page

[Richard K. <kar...@gm...>]

Either modify index.php or the relevant locale file (in /locales/en).

--Rick

[refbase-talk] refbase--adding text to home page

[Engel, K. <EN...@Gr...>]

Hello,


I've looked through the refbase documentation and the mail list archives and can't seem to find an answer ...


I would like to add some text to the top part of the index.php page (as it appears)--right by the line "Welcome! This database provides access to scientific literature."


Can I do this?  If so, what file would I need to modify?


Thank you very much,

engelk

Re: [refbase-talk] Removing login box

[Richard K. <kar...@gm...>]

You're correct: you edit index.php & remove the userlogin div (lines
~123-153). Make sure you're editing the file that is being served and
that neither your webserver nor your browser are giving you a cached
copy of the page.
--Rick

On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 3:14 PM, Engel, Kevin <EN...@gr...> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On the home page of Refbase, there is a gray login box on the right hand side of the screen.
>
> The Refbase installation I am doing is intended for the public--primarily for students at my institution.  They will be searching the database only--not adding to it as well.
>
> To prevent any confusion on their part, I would like to remove that large login box (and leave the small login link higher up on the page) but my attempts to do so have not been successful.  I have assumed that the file to edit was index.php, but that has not worked for me.
>
> Has anyone already done this? What do I need to edit?
>
> Thank you very much,
> Kevin
>
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[refbase-talk] Removing login box

[Engel, K. <EN...@Gr...>]

Hello,

On the home page of Refbase, there is a gray login box on the right hand side of the screen.  

The Refbase installation I am doing is intended for the public--primarily for students at my institution.  They will be searching the database only--not adding to it as well.

To prevent any confusion on their part, I would like to remove that large login box (and leave the small login link higher up on the page) but my attempts to do so have not been successful.  I have assumed that the file to edit was index.php, but that has not worked for me.  

Has anyone already done this? What do I need to edit?

Thank you very much,
Kevin

Re: [refbase-talk] Modifying Simple Search

[Richard K. <kar...@gm...>]

Kevin contacted me offlist saying he still couldn't figure it out.
A patch is attached.  This will not be supported.  However, it may
Kevin where he was going wrong and may be useful to others who want
different modifications.

On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 2:34 PM, Richard Karnesky <kar...@gm...> wrote:
> Matthias replied with this advice in the past & it has worked for others:
> To add support for another field to the current 'simple_search.php',
> one would need to copy the respective elements from
> 'advanced_search.php' to 'simple_search.php',
> and change function 'extractFormElementsSimple()' (in 'search.php') accordingly.
>
> Since your current version is not working as expected, I suggest you
> revert to the stock version before making these modifications.
>
> --Rick

Re: [refbase-talk] Modifying Simple Search

[Richard K. <kar...@gm...>]

Matthias replied with this advice in the past & it has worked for others:
To add support for another field to the current 'simple_search.php',
one would need to copy the respective elements from
'advanced_search.php' to 'simple_search.php',
and change function 'extractFormElementsSimple()' (in 'search.php') accordingly.

Since your current version is not working as expected, I suggest you
revert to the stock version before making these modifications.

--Rick

[refbase-talk] Modifying Simple Search

[Engel, K. <EN...@Gr...>]

Hello,

A question ...

I would like to add the Keywords and Abstract fields to the Simple Search interface.  

I modified simple_search.php to add those fields--and that worked fine.  They now appear in the interface and everything looks good.

However, when I search in simple_search using those fields,  I get all the records in the database as a result (rather than the correct number)--it happens every time.

I then attempted to modify search.php (within the simple_search area) to make simple_search actually search in the keywords and abstract fields--but that hasn't worked.

What do I need to do to make this work?  Is there another file that I need to modify?  Or, do I need to modify search.php in multiple places?

Thank you very much!

Kevin

Re: [refbase-talk] Lost admin password

[Antonio <ant...@gm...>]

Rick,

that's cool. It's worked!

For those like myself who only create one user and then forgot their
password, here are the steps I followed thanks to Rick's help (pretty
much a summary of his emails):

a) Open the file *initialize/ini.inc.php* in a text editor and change
the value of $addNewUsers to 'everyone'.
b) Then load the *user_details.php* and create a new user in the refbase
web interface.
c) Go back to the initialize/ini.inc.php file and change the
$adminLoginEmail value to the user email you created in the previous step.
d) Then goto the  'manage users' page in your browser (*users.php*) and
click the 'edit details' link for the account password you wish to reset
to change the password (the one I forgot the password of in my case)
e) Re-edit initialize/ini.inc.php to return the $adminLoginEmail and
$addNewUsers variables.
f) Delete the new user you created (if you don't need it).

Regards
Antonio

On 08/07/2014 18:44, Richard Karnesky wrote:
> To create a new user, you need to go to user_details.php
>

Re: [refbase-talk] Lost admin password

[Richard K. <kar...@gm...>]

To create a new user, you need to go to user_details.php

Re: [refbase-talk] Lost admin password

[Antonio <ant...@gm...>]

RIck,

thanks for this. I'm obviously missing a trick here. I fall in situation
"0" as I have no account I know the password for.

I've edited the $addNewUser to 'everyone' as you suggested. I reloaded
apache (just in case ..), closed and reopened browser (just in case ...)
and pointed to users.php as you suggested. However, RefBase re-directs
me to index.php and I get the usual message "*You must be logged in as
admin to view any user account details!"*

On 08/07/2014 18:06, Richard Karnesky wrote:
> To provide some minimal level of security over passwords, they are
> stored hashed and it is not trivial to "recover" a
> It is possible to reset the password manually.
> Because refbase's hashing process might change in the near-ish future,
> the following instructions use the refbase interface to change the
> password:
> 0. If you don't have an account you know the password for,open the
> file initialize/ini.inc.php in a text editor and change the value  of
> $addNewUsers to 'everyone' and create a new user in the refbase web
> interface.
> 1. If you have an account that you know the password for, open the
> file initialize/ini.inc.php in a text editor and change the value of
> the $adminLoginEmail variable to the working account.
> 2. Go to the 'manage users' page in your browser (users.php) and click
> the 'edit details' link for the account password you wish to reset to
> change the password.
> 3. Re-edit initialize/ini.inc.php to return the $adminLoginEmail and
> $addNewUsers variables.
>
> --Rick
>
> On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 7:16 AM, Antonio <ant...@gm...> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> please forgive me if this has already been answer but I have gone
>> through the forum history and have not found an answer. After a few
>> weeks of not having logged into my refbase installation, i have now lost
>> the admin password.
>>
>> I logged into the mysql "literature" database hiong i would find the
>> password stored in it. I found the "auth" table which supposedly stores
>> login info. Yet, when I use the password stored in that table against
>> the admin email, it doesn't recognise it. Is the password in this table
>> shown in encrypted form?
>>
>> If so, how do i recover/reset the admin password? I know I shoudl have
>> written it down and normally do as I use a different password for each
>> website/service but in this instance I seem to have forgot. Am i doomed
>> to a re-installation and loss of the data?
>>
>> Thanks for your time
>> Antonio
>>
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Re: [refbase-talk] Lost admin password

[Richard K. <kar...@gm...>]

To provide some minimal level of security over passwords, they are
stored hashed and it is not trivial to "recover" a
It is possible to reset the password manually.
Because refbase's hashing process might change in the near-ish future,
the following instructions use the refbase interface to change the
password:
0. If you don't have an account you know the password for,open the
file initialize/ini.inc.php in a text editor and change the value  of
$addNewUsers to 'everyone' and create a new user in the refbase web
interface.
1. If you have an account that you know the password for, open the
file initialize/ini.inc.php in a text editor and change the value of
the $adminLoginEmail variable to the working account.
2. Go to the 'manage users' page in your browser (users.php) and click
the 'edit details' link for the account password you wish to reset to
change the password.
3. Re-edit initialize/ini.inc.php to return the $adminLoginEmail and
$addNewUsers variables.

--Rick

On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 7:16 AM, Antonio <ant...@gm...> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> please forgive me if this has already been answer but I have gone
> through the forum history and have not found an answer. After a few
> weeks of not having logged into my refbase installation, i have now lost
> the admin password.
>
> I logged into the mysql "literature" database hiong i would find the
> password stored in it. I found the "auth" table which supposedly stores
> login info. Yet, when I use the password stored in that table against
> the admin email, it doesn't recognise it. Is the password in this table
> shown in encrypted form?
>
> If so, how do i recover/reset the admin password? I know I shoudl have
> written it down and normally do as I use a different password for each
> website/service but in this instance I seem to have forgot. Am i doomed
> to a re-installation and loss of the data?
>
> Thanks for your time
> Antonio
>
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[refbase-talk] Lost admin password

[Antonio <ant...@gm...>]

Hi,

please forgive me if this has already been answer but I have gone
through the forum history and have not found an answer. After a few
weeks of not having logged into my refbase installation, i have now lost
the admin password.

I logged into the mysql "literature" database hiong i would find the
password stored in it. I found the "auth" table which supposedly stores
login info. Yet, when I use the password stored in that table against
the admin email, it doesn't recognise it. Is the password in this table
shown in encrypted form?

If so, how do i recover/reset the admin password? I know I shoudl have
written it down and normally do as I use a different password for each
website/service but in this instance I seem to have forgot. Am i doomed
to a re-installation and loss of the data?

Thanks for your time
Antonio

Re: [refbase-talk] Parse error when trying to import records using PMIDs and DOIs

[Sascha T. <thi...@tu...>]

I recently installed ref base and had some problems with importing DOIs. However, i was able to finally solve the issue by using some php files of an older refbase version. I cannot quite tell exactly what files. You may change the files that are used for the DOI import.

Hope that helps a bit

On 30.06.2014, at 17:09, Engel, Kevin <EN...@Gr...> wrote:

> Hello,
>  
> I recently installed refbase-0.9.6 on a hosted server.  The installation went fine, I was able to customize the interface, etc.—everything looks good.
>  
> I tried to import some bibliographic records using PMIDs and DOIs; every time I try that (whether one record or a string of records), I get this error message –
>  
> Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or '}' ine:\websites\1414\strategian.com\refbase\refbase\includes\classes\org\simplepie\SimplePie.compiled.php on line 420
>  
> In doing some investigation, I see a lot of comments that this could be a conflict between PHP5 and PHP4.  The hosted server currently runs with PHP4.
>  
> Is this true?  Or, is there another way to solve this error? 
>  
> Thank you!
>  
> engelk
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[refbase-talk] Parse error when trying to import records using PMIDs and DOIs

[Engel, K. <EN...@Gr...>]

Hello,

I recently installed refbase-0.9.6 on a hosted server.  The installation went fine, I was able to customize the interface, etc.-everything looks good.

I tried to import some bibliographic records using PMIDs and DOIs; every time I try that (whether one record or a string of records), I get this error message -

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or '}' in e:\websites\1414\strategian.com\refbase\refbase\includes\classes\org\simplepie\SimplePie.compiled.php on line 420

In doing some investigation, I see a lot of comments that this could be a conflict between PHP5 and PHP4.  The hosted server currently runs with PHP4.

Is this true?  Or, is there another way to solve this error?

Thank you!

engelk

Re: [refbase-talk] Batch export of references

[Richard K. <kar...@gm...>]

We're unlikely to ever release a version with "file://" or relative
links (as it is relatively rare that the only client will be on the
same machine as the server).  However, the file links should already
work using Zotero on the same machine.  So, one simple work-around
would be to import them into Zotero & then export them from Zotero.

If you'd like to change the way files are exported in your own version
of refbase, you'd need to change the $URLprefix variable in
includes/modsxml.inc.php

However: I don't know, off-hand, how bibutils will handle the re-formed links.

--Rick

[refbase-talk] Batch export of references

[Antonio <ant...@gm...>]

Hi All,

i've just discovered refbase and I think its really great to manage huge
bibliographic collections like mine. I was using Zotero which I really
like but I think it get cluncky with a huge collection. Also I don't
really like the idea that my data is hosted on a third party server,
even if just bibliographic references ... so now I have my own little
server :-)

One thing that i would really like to get straight is the export
function. I would like to export to bib so that I can import in
Zotero/JabRef but preserving the links to the PDF docs where availble.
At the moment I have my "files" folder symlinked to a network folder
that can only be read by the www user. I would like to export the *bib
file but maintaining relative paths to the PDF files so that when in
JabRef I can actually click on the PDF icon. At the moment this doesn't
appear to be possible because you have an absolute path under the "file"
tab in the exported *bib file. So, instread of having
"./files/anderson/2013/Myfile_2013.pdf" it has
"http://127.0.0.1:999//files/anderson/2013/Myfile_2013.pdf" which is not
very useful when you are exporting to a different PC or network given
that my server is not open to the public.

Is there a way of doing this in the export phase or do I need to come up
with some script that changes the strings for me in the *bib file?

Regards
Antonio

Re: [refbase-talk] php version requirement

[Rick K. <kar...@gm...>]

Thanks for your comments.  To be honest, I'm not sure what to do here.

I believe this issue was likely fixed by PCRE 6.5 (released in Feb 
2006).  According to:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/pcre.installation.php
this would mean that PHP  5.2 and above and 4.4.7 are likely to work 
with the bundled versions of the PCRE library.  It is also possible for 
PHP to use non-bundled PCRE versions and we have been able to point to 
refbase running on some of these older versions of PHP.

Perhaps we should have a footnote recommending modern versions or 
specify the minimum PCRE library we'd like?

--Rick