Comments on: OpenBook Plugin: Grabbing the Book Data http://johnmiedema.ca/2008/05/29/openbook-plugin-grabbing-the-book-data/ books, libraries, technology Fri, 30 Jul 2010 13:07:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: John http://johnmiedema.ca/2008/05/29/openbook-plugin-grabbing-the-book-data/comment-page-1/#comment-2349 John Thu, 29 May 2008 21:14:52 +0000 http://johnmiedema.ca/?p=466#comment-2349 Paul, I knew there was a good reason for blogging this process. I will definitely use your first suggestion, and I will have a good look at the second. OL is working on a cover image API, but till then your suggestion might work. Much appreciated. Paul, I knew there was a good reason for blogging this process. I will definitely use your first suggestion, and I will have a good look at the second. OL is working on a cover image API, but till then your suggestion might work. Much appreciated.

]]> By: Paul Rodriguez http://johnmiedema.ca/2008/05/29/openbook-plugin-grabbing-the-book-data/comment-page-1/#comment-2348 Paul Rodriguez Thu, 29 May 2008 20:11:53 +0000 http://johnmiedema.ca/?p=466#comment-2348 Two small suggestions. If you write echo "Title:" . ucwords($title); It will return with proper capitalization: Title: Revolting Librarians Redux For the cover, OpenLibrary seems to use a fairly consistent system. I presume they will eventually integrate the cover URLs into their API, but until then, you could use: $full_cover_url = "http://openlibrary.org/static/bookcovers/full/" . substr($result->{'isbn_10'}, 0, 1} . "/" . substr($result->{'isbn-10'}, 1, 1) . "/" . $result->{'isbn_10'} . ".jpg"; $thumb_cover_url = "http://openlibrary.org/static/bookcovers/thumb/" . substr($result->{'isbn_10'}, 0, 1} . "/" . substr($result->{'isbn-10'}, 1, 1) . "/" . $result->{'isbn_10'} . ".jpg"; echo "Full cover: "; echo "Thumbnail cover: "; Two small suggestions. If you write

echo “Title:” . ucwords($title);

It will return with proper capitalization:

Title: Revolting Librarians Redux

For the cover, OpenLibrary seems to use a fairly consistent system. I presume they will eventually integrate the cover URLs into their API, but until then, you could use:

$full_cover_url = “http://openlibrary.org/static/bookcovers/full/” . substr($result->{‘isbn_10′}, 0, 1} . “/” . substr($result->{‘isbn-10′}, 1, 1) . “/” . $result->{‘isbn_10′} . “.jpg”;
$thumb_cover_url = “http://openlibrary.org/static/bookcovers/thumb/” . substr($result->{‘isbn_10′}, 0, 1} . “/” . substr($result->{‘isbn-10′}, 1, 1) . “/” . $result->{‘isbn_10′} . “.jpg”;
echo “Full cover: “;
echo “Thumbnail cover: “;

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