Mark's web presence nothing very exciting, just some guy's web presence

I've developed a yaz php client, more to entertain myself than to put into production. It supports search and browse, uses XSL to format results pages, has expandable/contractible record entries, and demonstrates simple mashups to external sources.

Requires PHP5 and IndexData's PHP/YAZ extension, plus a bit of knowledge of configuring z39.50 clients. Tested on Fedora Core 5 only.

This application is released to the public domain -- go nuts. The only outstanding issue (i.e., where I gave up) is support for diacritics. Expect to see some mangled characters outside of English.

See the module's project page at http://drupal.org/project/search_attachments for additional information, including archived support requests.

Purpose

search_attachments.module allows searching the text of PDF, MS Word, plain text, and other types of files attached to nodes. As of version 5.x-4, the module will also allow searching of files that are not attached to nodes but that are FTP'ed or otherwise uploaded to a Drupal site.

This is the "author's page" for my book Putting Content Online: A Practical Guide for Libraries, published September 2006 by Chandos Publishing (ISBN hardcover 1843341778 / paperback 184334176X).