On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 10:46 AM, Joachim Bingel <bin...@ids-mannheim.de> wrote: > I'm looking to implement a function to obtain the list of an author's > publications in XML, given the author's name. The OAI webapp can output > the whole set of publications to one big XML, and I could parse that by > author name, but it seems like this is some overhead and also that only > chunks of 100 items can be returned at a time.
Hi Joachim, OAI-PMH is not meant for searching, but for batch-harvesting. Solr is great for this use-case. It's fast and it will do author searches (?q=author:"Bingel, Joachim") You can find out most of what you need here [1]. > I've been thinking of a PHP script to query the DB given the author's > name as an URL variable, but the [dspace]/webapps/xmlui/static directory > can only seem to handle HTML, not PHP. The former works fine, the latter > gives me a 404. > > Any ideas why a PHP script cannot be found? Any other suggestions to > reach my goal are also welcome. :) Feel free to use PHP, but do not use the direct database access - it will be slower than Solr. You can use e.g. SimpleXML to process the Solr XML response. Solr also has a native response format for PHP (&wt=php). Assuming you have an Apache HTTPD configured in front of Apache Tomcat (which doesn't care abot PHP) via AJP [1] and you have mod_php or PHP via fcgi, configure a handler for PHP files in a separate directory. Then use a ProxyPass directive for that directory to tell HTTPD to bypass the AJP connector and call the PHP handler instead. If you have a different setup than AJP, let me know, but it will be similar. [1] https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Solr [2] https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/DspaceOnStandardPorts Regards, ~~helix84 Compulsory reading: DSpace Mailing List Etiquette https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Mailing+List+Etiquette ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ LIMITED TIME SALE - Full Year of Microsoft Training For Just $49.99! 1,500+ hours of tutorials including VisualStudio 2012, Windows 8, SharePoint 2013, SQL 2012, MVC 4, more. BEST VALUE: New Multi-Library Power Pack includes Mobile, Cloud, Java, and UX Design. Lowest price ever! Ends 9/20/13. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=58041151&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech List Etiquette: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Mailing+List+Etiquette
