fabianope
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Perl and OPACs
hello to everybody
the question is (maybe) not difficult but it may employ long time to resolve.
please go to
http://opac.bib.uniud.it:82/ALEPH/
this is the on line catalogue of a university (sorry for the italian language) made with ALEPH. You can find other info and english demos about this software at:
http://www.exlibris-usa.com/aleph/products7.html
all that I want is a dynamic perl page that passes to the catalogue some string search (IE a perl page that automatically finds all the books that have the word "mathematics" on the title) and returns a list of the matching headers
in other words something like "click here to find all the mathematics books of the university" with "here" hyperlinked to the perl page in question.
I think that the difficult is on the large use of dynamic session-ids inside this software.
bye and thanks
Fabiano
the question is (maybe) not difficult but it may employ long time to resolve.
please go to
http://opac.bib.uniud.it:82/ALEPH/
this is the on line catalogue of a university (sorry for the italian language) made with ALEPH. You can find other info and english demos about this software at:
http://www.exlibris-usa.com/aleph/products7.html
all that I want is a dynamic perl page that passes to the catalogue some string search (IE a perl page that automatically finds all the books that have the word "mathematics" on the title) and returns a list of the matching headers
in other words something like "click here to find all the mathematics books of the university" with "here" hyperlinked to the perl page in question.
I think that the difficult is on the large use of dynamic session-ids inside this software.
bye and thanks
Fabiano
Chris S
listening to other's answers....
could you please post the code which needs to be changed
ASKER
hello,
I know that this is an ORACLE solution, but I've not an administrative access to the server and I don't know the
database structure, so I must work only with the (dynamic) HTML interface.
I've thought to the following scenario:
1) with a first interrogation to the html interface the script fetch the session ID(s)
2) with a "second passage" the script builds the right url for the search.
please note that you can "fix" the search to a pre-defined search term: I.E.
<a href="searchmat.pl">math books</a>
where searchmat.pl is the page I desired...
the script should be build from scratch: if this is difficult I can increase the points.
bye
Fabianope
I know that this is an ORACLE solution, but I've not an administrative access to the server and I don't know the
database structure, so I must work only with the (dynamic) HTML interface.
I've thought to the following scenario:
1) with a first interrogation to the html interface the script fetch the session ID(s)
2) with a "second passage" the script builds the right url for the search.
please note that you can "fix" the search to a pre-defined search term: I.E.
<a href="searchmat.pl">math books</a>
where searchmat.pl is the page I desired...
the script should be build from scratch: if this is difficult I can increase the points.
bye
Fabianope
fabianope,
If you want to know how to use patterns,
http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.6.1/pod/perl.html
You will get links to perlre and perlre tutorial.
I could not open the english site :( and I dont understand
italian :(
Well, where is the data lying? Is it in oracle or it is coming from HTML form?
If the data is lying in Orcale, then I think you need to know database structure.
Do you know how to connect to oracle using perl?
Also to read database and knowing a database structure does not need administrator access.
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ahoffmann
thanks a lot for the solution.
sorry for the delay in answering (I was away for work)
in the next hours I'll try it and if successfull I'll accept it.
bye
fabianope
thanks a lot for the solution.
sorry for the delay in answering (I was away for work)
in the next hours I'll try it and if successfull I'll accept it.
bye
fabianope
ASKER
hello,
excuse the delay in answering (I've added 30 points)
thanks
Fabianope
excuse the delay in answering (I've added 30 points)
thanks
Fabianope
Thanks