Robert Heller

What are you using for barcodes? Are you using the auto generated barcodes?

You’ll have to modify the code. Look in includes/WEBLIB_Patrons_Admin.php,
function checkiteminform() and change this code:

$newzip = $_REQUEST['zip'];
    if (!($newzip != '' && (strlen($newzip) == 5 || strlen($newzip) == 10) &&
        preg_match('/\d+(-\d+)?/',$newzip) )) {
      $result .= '<br /><span id="error">'.__('Zip is invalid','web-librarian') . '</span>';
    }

You should change the match pattern passed to preg_match to match Canadian
postal code formats.

and in the function display_one_item_form() there is this code fragment:

<tr valign="top">
        <th scope="row"><label for="zip" style="width:20%;"><?php _e('Zip:','web-librarian'); ?></label></th>
        <td><input id="zip"
                   name="zip"
                   style="width:75%;"
                   maxlength="10"
                   value="<?php echo $this->viewitem->zip(); ?>"<?php echo $ro; ?> /></td></tr>

You want to change the label for the field.

Hmm… The plugin is coded to get the E-Mail from the WordPress login — there are a number of places where that is done — did you replace all of those pieces of code? And why did you do that?

I don’t really have a way to handle code check ins. And at this point I don’t have the time, etc. to deal with new features.

Your best option would be to fork the code — basically create a new plugin based on this plugin with your changes.

The CSS code goes into a stylesheet file (.css), or contained in a <style> tag:

<style>
.weblib-item-thumb img {
   display: none;
}
</style>

Some themes allow for adding ‘extra’ CSS (Style) code somewhere on one of their seting pages.

Have you read the documentation (http://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/weblibrarian/assets/user_manual/user_manual.pdf)? A patron needs to create a WordPress login and his/her WordPress username needs to be associated with a Patron ID (either the user can claim the patron it or the librarian can set it). Once this has been done and assuming you have set up a page or post with the search and list short codes (make sure the permalink setting is set right), the patron/user does a search for the book and the result list will have Request buttons. When the patron clicks on the button next to the book he/she would like, the system places a ‘Hold’ on the book. This will inform the librarian that the book is wanted and the librarian can then set it aside (eg on a Holds shelf) and when the patron next visits the library (in person), the patron can then check out the book.

What happens when you go to the URL (be sure to be logged in first):

http://scrime.labri.fr/wp-content/plugins/weblibrarian/PlaceHoldOnItem.php

On the Librarian’s dashboard is a admin menu titled “Circulation Types”. You add new ones there. It just associates a ‘name’ with a lending period. For example you can lend books or 3 weeks (21 days) and videos or 1 week (7 days).

For a specific item:

[weblib_itemdetail detaillevel='long' barcode='the barcode']

(Replace ‘the barcode’ with the actual barcode, in quotes)

Note the ‘standard’ short codes for a search page:

[weblib_searchform] [weblib_itemlist holdbutton=1 inlinemoreinfo=1]

Will display the search *results* using a ‘brief’ detail level, and will provide links in the search results to get a long detail display of the selected item. The weblib_itemlist short code will only display items in the result list at a ‘brief’ detail level — it is not possible to make it list search results at a ‘long’ detail level, unless you modify the PHP code that expands the short codes. That PHP code is in the file includes/short_codes.php — if you are confortable with hacking the PHP you can modify the code, either to make the weblib_itemlist short code display a long detail level or modify what the weblib_itemdetail short code displays at a ‘brief’ detail level.