From: Matthias S. <re...@ex...> - 2005-10-02 20:22:08
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Hi Luca, > The files upload issue is solved now, my webhost provided me with > the correct path, and the directory has the right permissions. =46ine, that's good to know. > As to export, there's still a problem. I checked all the messages > in the forum, I also checked the ini.php file and everything is > set correctly. So is safe_mode turned "OFF" or "ON"? In case safe mode is turned on and that you have access to the server's php.ini file, please try setting safe_mode =3D OFF and see if that makes for any difference. And as noted, if safe_mode is "ON" and you can't turn it off, the bibutils programs must be put into the directory specified by safe_mode_exec_dir. > I ran again the script in SQL: >=20 > UPDATE cac_refbase.depends SET depends_path =3D ' /home/httpd/vhosts/=20 > MY_SERVER_NAME/httpdocs/refbase-0.8.0/export/bibutils/', =20 > depends_enabled =3D 'true' WHERE depends_external =3D "bibutils"; So you did put the bibutils programs into export/bibutils within the refbase root dir? Just to be clear: the contents of 'depends_path' must point to the directory containing the bibutils programs, not to the export scripts. And I assume the space before ' /home' was not part of your UPDATE query? Otherwise this may have caused problems. > Thereafter, when I export, the only format that returns references in =20 > html is MODS XML. The other formats seem to work only if I set return =20 > as file, but when I open the saved files they are just empty. MODS export works since this is provided directly by refbase while all other formats depend on the bibutils utilities. So, if you get a blank page, the bibutils programs can't be found or they can't be executed due to permission problems. HTH, Matthias |
From: Matthias S. <re...@ex...> - 2005-10-03 12:06:30
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Hi Luca, thanks for your kind words! It keeps us moving... :-) > Problems all solved: Great! > - but one thing I didn't get, is that the export directory had no > bibutils programs in it. My refBase 0.8.0 version had only php. > files Yes, that's correct. The user has to download and install bibutils separately. This is indicated in 'install.php' upon installation but we should probably add this information to the 'INSTALL' readme as well. Sorry for the confusion! > BTW, after years with Endnote, I moved to Bookends. Cheaper, and > better in several respects. I'm going to write CSA export format > in Bookends in order to import my whole library It was long planned to provide batch import capabilities for CSA as well as for other common bibliographic formats. Unfortunately, this has not been implemented yet. > however I'm just wondering what's the best way to batch import > references in refBase. Currently, your best option is to export to Endnote format and use the in the 'endnote2mysql.php' script provided in the contrib/endnote directory. See the readme in that directory for more information. Alternatively, if you've still got a copy of Endnote, you can use Rick's 'refbase.ens' export style to export data in a text format that can be processed by the 'endnote2mysql.php' script. The transformed text file can then be imported directly into the MySQL database via the command line. If you're not afraid of a bit of text munging, than you could as well create an Bookends output style that matches the rules for data import given in the 'INSTALL' file. This should enable you to directly import this file into the MySQL database. Import will get much more convenient in the future, but we're not there yet. However, this is one of the major planned enhancements. =46or future discussion, you may want to use the refbase discussion or help forums available at: <http://sourceforge.net/forum/?group_id=3D64647> They seem to be a bit more active than this mailing list. ;-) Best regards, Matthias |