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53 lines
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# BiblioMxWeb
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> Not official and not endorsed by Micla Multimedia Onlus
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A system to extract data from a [BiblioMx](http://www.micla.org/freeware/bibliomx.html) system and display it on the Internet in a searchable fashion, trough a semi-automatic process
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> **Notice**
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> The GUI present in this software is in Italian, because of the primary audience of said software
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> However, you may freely and easily fix this in your implementation
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## Preamble
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BiblioMx, despite being a pretty common library management software, saves data in custom binary files, and only allows exporting data to CSV.
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This approach greatly limits the possibility of accessing and querying data through means other than the desktop program itself.
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This is the major limitation that this project tries to address.
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## Components
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### Server
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The server receives a CSV (trough chunking, if necessary) and concerts it into a sqllite database.
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The PHP application provides a Web UI for searching and viewing books, including bibliographical data and availability
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### Agent
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The agent must be set to boot hidden at the start of the computer (functionality not included int the code)
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``biblio.ini`` must be configured with the correct information, under the ``[DATA]`` section:
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| Key | Value |
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|databasePath|The path to the xbb database|
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|csvPath|The path to the csv export file|
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|serverUrl|The URL to ``up.php``|
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|authCode|The authentication code for that server instance|
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|significance|The number of action that must be taken before the server shall be synced again|
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|verbose|Show verbose output|
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|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"|
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|chunkSize|Chunk size (rows) for uploading the CSV|
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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
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The upload will also trigger the refresh of the sqllite database on the server when ended
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