Bib Record Number search via WebForm

[Jonathan Jiras <jjjwml@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Innopac users:

Our staff would like to be able to search our WebPAC by bib record
number through a Web form.

I know that a bib record number search can be constructed via a URL with
this syntax: http://yourinnopac.edu/record=b1549443 leaving off the bib
record's check digit.

But, has anyone figured out how to create a web form for a BIB record
number search?

In theory this should be possible.  If not on the Innopac web server,
than perhaps on some other web server.

All we would need would be a cgi (or possibly a JavaScripted web page)
that could
1- take the first 7 digits of a bib record number entered into a text
box (leaving off the last check digit),
2- concatenate it to the end of a string like this:
http://albert.rit.edu/record=,  and then
3- forward the user or open up a child browser window to the complete
URL: http://albert.rit.edu/record=b1549443

Has someone already done this?
Would you be willing to share your code?

Jon Jiras
Library Software Specialist
Rochester Institute of Technology