OPAC: Create External Link Footer Tab

Created By: Jim Robinson

Created on: 5/14/2019

[This article was copied from the Voyager Wiki.]

To create footer tabs that link to another server, I use a simple CGI script.

redirect.cgi

#!/m1/shared/bin/perl -w

local ($buffer, @pairs, $pair, $name, $value, %FORM);

# Get

$ENV{'REQUEST_METHOD'} =~ tr/a-z/A-Z/;

if ($ENV{'REQUEST_METHOD'} eq "GET") {

$buffer = $ENV{'QUERY_STRING'};

}

# Split information into name/value pairs

@pairs = split(/&/, $buffer);

foreach $pair (@pairs) {

($name, $value) = split(/=/, $pair);

$value =~ tr/+/ /;

$value =~ s/%(..)/pack("C", hex($1))/eg;

$FORM{$name} = $value;

}

$page = $FORM{page};

print "Location: $page\n\n";

Save this as /m1/voyager/xxxdb/tomcat/vwebv/context/vwebv/htdocs/vwebv/redirect.cgi

Set owner and permissions:

cd /m1/voyager/*xxxdb*/tomcat/vwebv/context/vwebv/htdocs/vwebv

chown voyager:endeavor redirect.cgi

chmod 755 redirect.cgi

Let's make a footer tab that links to Google.

Create the new tab/button in /m1/voyager/xxxdb/tomcat/vwebv/context/vwebv/ui/skin/webvoyage.properties

###############################################################################

# Footer

###############################################################################

page.footer.buttons.google.button=Google

page.footer.buttons.google.message=Visit Google today!

Tell the tab/button what to do in /m1/voyager/xxxdb/tomcat/vwebv/context/vwebv/ui/skin/internal.properties

###############################################################################

# Footer

###############################################################################

page.footer.buttons.google.action=redirect.cgi?page=http://www.google.com

Display the new tab/button in /m1/voyager/xxxdb/tomcat/vwebv/context/vwebv/ui/skin/xsl/userTextConfigs/papgeProperties.xml

<footerTabDisplayOrder>]

</footerTabDisplayOrder>

Call the redirect script with
http://your.domain/vwebv/redirect.cgi?page=http://www.google.com
where page= the page to which you'd like to link.