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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. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.