File_MARC package for PHP

Hey, welcome to the File_MARC package for PHP. If you don't know what MARC is, then you probably don't need this package -- but you can find out more about MARC at Library of Congress: MARC standards.

Requirements

The basic requirement for File_MARC is PHP 5.1.2 or above with a working PEAR installer. The PEAR installer will install any dependencies for you.

Installation

Install the File_MARC package using the PEAR installer. You have to append -alpha to the package name as I have not yet created a stable release.

# pear install File_MARC-alpha

Documentation

Read the File_MARC API documentation.

Highlighted source files

Download

Current release: 0.1.1-alpha is hosted at PEAR.

Comments

Comments are welcome by email at dbs@php.net.

Future directions

More user-oriented documentation
Make MARC_Record->appendField() append the field to the end of the corresponding [0-9]xx range to keep records conformant with LOC guidelines
Enable sorting the MARC fields
Add levels of MARC standards compliance for error modes (e.g. only one 1XX field per bibliographic record)
Add semantic shortcuts for a given record based on the fixed fields values (e.g. $record->getLanguage() or the like).
~~Enable reading from and writing to MARCXML format~~ - Added basic capabilities 2007/01/01 with File_MARC_Record::toXML() method and the File_MARCXML class

Previous releases

The latest release, and any release starting from File_MARC-0.1.0 (the first official PEAR release), will always be available from http://pear.php.net/File_MARC. The following releases predate the first official PEAR release and should only be of interest to archivists and code historians.