PicaWriter – Classes for writing Pica+ records
About
PicaWriter provides classes for writing Pica+ records to PicaXML and PicaPlain.
PicaWriter is copyright (c) 2012 by Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel and released under the terms of the GNU General Public License v3.
Installation
PicaWriter should be installed using the PEAR Installer. This installer is the PHP community’s de-facto standard for installing PHP packages.
pear channel-discover hab20.hab.de/service/pear pear install --alldeps hab20.hab.de/service/pear/PicaWriter
Usage
All writers adhere to the same simple interface: You call the Writer::write() function with a
record instance as argument and the function returns the record encoded in the respective output
format.
Development
If you want to patch or enhance this component, you will need to create a suitable development environment. The easiest way to do that is to install phix4componentdev:
apt-get install php5-xdebug apt-get install php5-imagick pear channel-discover pear.phix-project.org pear -D auto_discover=1 install -Ba phix/phix4componentdev
You can then clone the Git repository:
git clone git://gitorious.org/php-pica/picawriter.git
Then, install a local copy of the package’s dependencies to complete the development environment:
phing build-vendor
To make life easier for you, common tasks (such as running unit tests, generating code review analytics, and creating the PEAR package) have been automated using Phing. You’ll find the automated steps inside the build.xml file that ships with the component.
Run the command ‘phing’ in the component’s top-level folder to see the full list of available automated tasks.
Acknowledgements
The Phix project makes it easy to setup and maintain a package repository for a PEAR-installable package and integrates important tools such as PHPUnit, Phing, PEAR, and Pirum. Large parts of this package would not have been possible without studying the source of Pica::Record, an open source Perl library for handling Pica+ records by Jakob Voß, and the practical knowledge of our library’s catalogers.