My department at a university library has taken on a project (passed to us by the Smithsonian Nat. Museum) in which I will be developing a front end for a database. We are currently rebuilding the DB, but would like to make a view where we take a citation field [i.e. below] and parse it to separate each section of it [date, author, publisher... they SHOULD all be in ALA format.]
I am coming here with this, because I am very new to PHP and have never done something like this...
Citation Example:
My main concern with this kind of parsing, is that the format of these citations are not comma delineated or anything of the sort.Ahlström, Göran.<i> Technological Development and Industrial Expositions, 1850-1914: Sweden in an International Perspective.</i> Lund: Lund University Press, 1996.
I need to make a view that will show the citation broken into sections (author, article, date, publisher...) eventually, this same piece of code will be used to insert into the new table that is being created at a later date.
If anyone could give me some guidance, that would be fantastic.
Thank you,
Wes Crockett