Solved the image matching regexp issue: if the search term was more than
one word, it needed to be rewritten for the query using a + rather than a
space between the words.

as for hitting the catalog with searches over and over, I suppose there is
a way to cache pages rather than pound the server over and over, right?
 I'll look into that.

Godmar, would you mind passing along your PHP script so I can how exactly
you created that JSON?

On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Godmar Back <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 11:18 AM, Nate Hill <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
> > I attached the app as it stands now.  There's something wrong w/ the
> regex
> > matching in catscrape.php so only some of the images are coming through.
> >
>
> No, it's not the regexp. You're simply scraping syndetics links, without
> checking if syndetics has or does not have an image for those ISBNs. Those
> searches where the first four hits have jackets display, the others don't.
>
>
> > Also: should I be sweating the fact that basically every time someone
> > mouses over one of these boxes they are hitting our library catalog with
> a
> > query?  It struck me that this might be unwise.  But I don't know either
> > way.
> >
> >
> Yes, it's unwise, especially since the results won't change (much).
>
>  - Godmar
>



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