BiblioMxWeb

Not official and not endorsed by Micla Multimedia Onlus

A system to extract data from a BiblioMx system and display it on the Internet in a searchable fashion, trough a semi-automatic process

Notice

The GUI present in this software is in Italian, because of the primary audience of said software However, you may freely and easily fix this in your implementation

Preamble

BiblioMx, despite being a pretty common library management software, saves data in custom binary files, and only allows exporting data to CSV.

This approach greatly limits the possibility of accessing and querying data through means other than the desktop program itself.

This is the major limitation that this project tries to address.

Components

Server

The server receives a CSV (trough chunking, if necessary) and concerts it into a sqllite database.

The PHP application provides a Web UI for searching and viewing books, including bibliographical data and availability

Agent

The agent must be set to boot hidden at the start of the computer (functionality not included int the code)

biblio.ini must be configured with the correct information, under the [DATA] section:

Key	Value
databasePath	The path to the xbb database
csvPath	The path to the csv export file
serverUrl	The URL to up.php
authCode	The authentication code for that server instance
significance	The number of action that must be taken before the server shall be synced again
verbose	Show verbose output
updateUserWait	After prompting the user to update the CSV, how much time (s) to wait before moving on and uploading the file, starts after pressing "OK"
chunkSize	Chunk size (rows) for uploading the CSV

Once the librarian performs a set number of actions, they will be asked to export the database manually to a csv, then the agent will upload it accordingly

The upload will also trigger the refresh of the sqllite database on the server when ended