III XMLOPAC for PHP5

I’m kind-of working on a proof-of-concept for some social software features with our catalog, but I needed a quick and easy way to grab rudimentary bibliographical record data from the catalog.

The upshot is that I threw together a PHP5 class that’ll take a bib number and return a simple array of data from the bib record. It seems pretty portable so I decided to make it available. Even though it’s pretty basic now, I can easily see the scope of this class growing.

Anyway, here’s how you might use it:

<?php
require_once('xmlopac.php');
$opac_server = "my.opac.org";
$bibnum = "123456";
 
$xmlopac = new xmlopac;
$xmlopac->opacserver = $opacserver;
$result = $xmlopac->get_opac_data($bibnum);
 
print_r($result);
?>

Hopefully, if all works well, you’ll get something like:

Array
(   
    [author] => Burns, John, 1968-
    [fulltitle] => The urban picnic / by John Burns
    [title] => The urban picnic
    [pubinfo] => Vancouver : Arsenal Pulp Press, 2004
    [desc] => 351 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
    [isbn] => 1551521555
    [price] => $21.95
)

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