RE: [PHP] Book database (slightly OT)

Why not simply look the ISBN up in one of the big online shops and take the data from there? Amazon? B&N? It all depends on what you will do with the data I guess... Sincerely berber Visit http://www.weberdev.com/ Today!!! To see where PHP might take you tomorrow. -----Original Message----- From: Egon Schmid [mailto:eschmid@php.net] Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 4:02 AM To: reubendb@goshen.edu; php-general@lists.php.net; Steve Edberg Subject: Re: [PHP] Book database (slightly OT) From: "Steve Edberg" <sbedberg@ucdavis.edu> > Perhaps the Library of Congress?? > > http://www.loc.gov/z3950/ > > You could hack the web interface, but it would be more efficient to > query the database directly using the Z.39.50 stateful protocol: see > > http://lcweb.loc.gov/z3950/gateway.html#about > and > http://www.niso.org/standards/resources/Z3950_Resources.html > > among other places. You could probably write a pretty decent > interface using PHP's socket functions, but it would be more > efficient to write a PHP extension for it - depending on how intense > your searches were. That was on my to-do list for a project a few > years ago, but I'm no longer working on that. It seems that you are or have been a librarian. Have you ever tried http://php.net/yaz ? -Egon -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net