How to link to Biblio

Hi Nancy,

Without looking at the quotes module a bit, there is no simple answer to this question. Off the top of my head, since the biblio module supports importing of data in a number of formats (bibTex, EndNote XML, EndNote Tagged, RIS) if you were to format data from quotes into one of those formats, you could them make one call to biblio to read it in, save it and return you the "id" of the newly created node.

I've downloaded the quotes module so I'll take a look at it and let you know what might be feasible.

Ron.

From her posts in the Quotes.module issues queue, NancyDru still appears to be having difficulty integrating Quotes.module with Biblio.module.

I am grateful for your extensive work providing a myriad of export formats -- you've been very responsive in this area. However, using export formats seems to be an inefficient and inelegant method of communicating with other Drupal modules. Perhaps it's time for a Biblio API to allow other Drupal modules to leverage your good work. Clearly there is a need for it -- Footnotes.module already uses Biblio, and now there is a need for interoperability with Quotes.module. It's not difficult to imagine several more benefiting from it.

Additionally, an API may allow other developers to add auxiliary features to Biblio without distracting you from maintaining and improving the core module.

Ron, the favor of a response is politely requested, as integrating citation/reference/bibliography functionality is very important to some of us.

Sorry, I really haven't had time to look into this particular issue, and to be perfectly honest it's not likely to happen until I finish the 6.x version since the transition from 5 -> 6 is dragging on much longer than I would have liked.

I will keep it in mind though, and if you can provide some use cases (how this would be used in the real world) it might help me figure something out. Perhaps some examples (URLs if possible) of how the quotes module is being used might also be useful.

Ron.

The Biblio module is screaming for an API. There is so much additional functionality that other developers could hang on this thing with dependent modules, it ain't even funny. Open it up, Ron! You don't have the time to do everything.

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