Haha, thanks :) Yes, Perl was the choice as it was already configured to connect to the Oracle database. I can't say I was very fluent in it back then (well, I still feel the same), but it did the job!
--Ere dc...@prosentient.com.au kirjoitti 10.11.2020 klo 1.28: > Thanks, Ere! > > That's amazing that WebVoyáge Enhancer worked for so long. Interesting use of > Perl! > > David Cook > Software Engineer > Prosentient Systems > 72/330 Wattle St > Ultimo, NSW 2007 > Australia > > Office: 02 9212 0899 > Online: 02 8005 0595 > > -----Original Message----- > From: Koha-devel <koha-devel-boun...@lists.koha-community.org> On Behalf Of > Ere Maijala > Sent: Tuesday, 10 November 2020 5:27 AM > To: koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org > Subject: Re: [Koha-devel] Ideas for Koha Plugins > > Hi, > > Just a quick note to say that it sounds like a good idea to me. While keeping > such plugin up to date might need some work (depending on which template it's > touching and how often it changes), that would make many things possible > without having to do much plumbing in the core code. > > If anyone says this is never going to work or be worth the effort, I've > actually done something similar long ago without any support from the system > in question, and it worked surprisingly well (see > https://developers.exlibrisgroup.com/blog/tomcatwebvoyageenhancer/ if you > really want to know more :) ). We ran it for many years in production with > little issues, though I must admit that there were not many updates to > Voyager's OPAC to worry about. > > --Ere > > dc...@prosentient.com.au kirjoitti 5.11.2020 klo 2.07: >> Hi all, >> >> >> >> I was looking at Mark’s bug report at >> https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=26890, and >> it got me thinking about how we use Koha Plugins (amongst other things). >> >> >> >> I think it would be interesting to let Koha plugins touch the >> $template object before $template->output is called. That would give >> Koha plugins a lot more power without having to hardcode in specific >> methods and such into Perl scripts. The Perl script could lookup Koha >> plugins using a hard-coded key (e.g. opac/opac-detail.pl or >> opac/opac-detail), and then it would be the job of the Koha plugin to take >> things from there. >> >> >> >> As a related aside, at some point, I’m planning to replace >> “output_html_with_http_headers” and “output_with_http_headers” (as >> part of Bug 26845 probably), but I’m not quite there yet. I’m slowly >> in the process of building Mojolicious controllers to replace our CGI >> scripts, and I’m hoping to refactor some vital components of Koha so >> that our CGI scripts keep working, but the new Mojolicious controllers >> are able to re-use the same code and stay consistent. >> >> >> >> Anyway, it’s just an idea. We could implement it in >> “output_html_with_http_headers”, or we could just implement it in some >> important scripts like opac-detail.pl. I don’t have any particular >> use-cases in mind (besides Mark’s). >> >> >> >> Another idea would be to put more of the UI logic into Javascript and >> hook plugins in more dynamically with the Javascript at a per-page >> level (rather than only via IntranetUserJS and OpacUserJS), but I >> haven’t thought too much about that. >> >> >> >> David Cook >> >> Software Engineer >> >> Prosentient Systems >> >> 72/330 Wattle St >> >> Ultimo, NSW 2007 >> >> Australia >> >> >> >> Office: 02 9212 0899 >> >> Online: 02 8005 0595 >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Koha-devel mailing list >> Koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org >> https://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel >> website : http://www.koha-community.org/ git : >> http://git.koha-community.org/ bugs : http://bugs.koha-community.org/ >> > -- Ere Maijala Kansalliskirjasto / The National Library of Finland _______________________________________________ Koha-devel mailing list Koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org https://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel website : http://www.koha-community.org/ git : http://git.koha-community.org/ bugs : http://bugs.koha-community.org/
