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Re: [LUG] Anyone fancy helping?



Dear Neil

I fancy helping but!....

I am currently teaching myself MySQL and PHP and just getting it! Am I
able to be able to help? It might mean to much hand holding and I don't
want to be a burden. But equally am keen on learning and offering help.

Rich


On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 22:16, Neil Williams wrote:
> My latest project is finally at beta.
> http://www.isbn.org.uk/
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/isbnsearch/
> 
> After an idea from Neil (S), I decided to look into making a genuine MySQL 
> portal to ISBN details that is independent of any bookseller, gives only the 
> results you need, can be queried remotely for HTML, XML, SQL or MARC output 
> with a standard, static URL with a predictable query string and no cookies or 
> Javascript. It's early days so far and the database is tiny but it'll grow in 
> time.
> 
> Via sourceforge, I want to make this a distributed project because no one site 
> can cover the whole area. So I'm looking for people with some LAMP webspace 
> to follow the template at isbn.org.uk to create their own sites. The HTML 
> pages are tiny but the database could get large, depending on your set-up and 
> popularity.
> 
> Ordinary webspace probably won't do, you need a friendly sysadmin to install 
> some source code packages and a couple of unusual Perl modules. All that info 
> is on the sites.
> 
> Alternatively, there is a task at sourceforge waiting for anyone who IS able 
> to install the toolkit on their own machine plus the modules and who is 
> willing to use some of their bandwidth to help me find out which servers are 
> actually functioning. No webspace changes required.
> 
> There's a sourceforge mailing list for anyone interested:
> http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/isbnsearch-devel
> 
> The sourceforge package is currently still at alpha - I'm hoping to update the 
> package by the weekend.


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