Catalog Pointer

Drupal 7 module that sets the url/target for the GW Libraries catalog search and All-Search (Bento) as a site configuration setting (admin/config). It provides three options for each tool:

• Use default
• Use the fallback catalog (or test server in the case of Bento)
• Manually set an alternate URL (with provided textfield)

Installation

1. Place the catalog_pointer directory and contents in the site's modules directory: `sites/all/modules`
2. Go to the site's Module configuration page /admin/modules and enable the Catalog Pointer module (it will be in a group labelled GW Librairies)
3. Done! (go to the site admin configuration page to change settings admin/config)

The target url can be called from the function catalog_pointer_check() for the Catalog and catalog_pointer_bento() for Bento.

<?php
  // checks to see if function exists and sets the catalog target (set in GW custom Catalog Pointer module) and if not sets a default value (our current Launchpad catalog search).
  if (function_exists('catalog_pointer_check')) {$catalogTarget = catalog_pointer_check();} else {$catalogTarget = "http://findit.library.gwu.edu/search";} 
?>
<?php
  // checks to see if function exists and sets the Bento target (set in GW custom Catalog Pointer module) and if not sets a default value (the prod Bento server).
  if (function_exists('catalog_pointer_bento')) {$bentoTarget = catalog_pointer_bento();} else {$bentoTarget = "http://gwbento-prod.wrlc.org:8080/";} 
?>