Koha New Arrival Carousel Display on OPAC with Koha Coverflow Plugin

First you will need to turn on the koha plugin system

Open the koha-config.xml file

#vim /etc/koha/sites/library/koha-conf.xml

Change <enable_plugins>0<enable_plugins> to <enable_plugins>1</enable_plugins> in your koha-conf.xml file

Confirm that the path to <pluginsdir> exists, in my case the path is  <pluginsdir>/var/lib/koha/library/plugins</pluginsdir>

#/ect/init.d/apache2 restart   //Restart Webserver
#/etc/init.d/memcached restart //Restart memcached

Next go to Koha system preference and enable the UseKohaPlugins (UseKohaPlugins system preferences is removed in latest koha. Koha plugins now only depends on config key enable_plugins.)

Now, if you go to Administration -> Tools, you will see Tools Plugin 

Now upload the  Koha Coverflow Plugin (koha-coverflow-plugin-v2.4.29.kpz) which can be downloaded from the following link:

https://github.com/bywatersolutions/koha-plugin-coverflow/releases

Click on Tools plugin to upload the plugin

Now before configuring the plugin create a Report in Koha by going to Reports  and copy the following SQL query:

SELECT b.biblionumber, i.Barcode, SUBSTRING_INDEX(m.isbn, ' ', 1) AS isbn, b.title 
  FROM items i
  LEFT JOIN biblioitems m USING (biblioitemnumber)
  LEFT JOIN biblio b ON (i.biblionumber=b.biblionumber)
  WHERE DATE_SUB(CURDATE(),INTERVAL 60 DAY) <= i.dateaccessioned AND m.isbn IS NOT NULL AND m.isbn != ''
  GROUP BY biblionumber
  HAVING isbn != ""
  LIMIT 30

Name the report as "coverflow" and save it. Note the report ID. in my case the report ID = 5.

Now go to plugin page and configure the coverflow plugin  and click on configure and add the flowing code in the Mapping:
- id: 5  (Note: Here 5 is my report ID)
  selector: #coverflow
  options:
     buttons: true
     autoplay: 4000
     loop: true

For more styles check the link http://brokensquare.com/Code/jquery-flipster/demo/

You can also set the height and width of the CoverFlow. Save the configuration.

Next, open the following file
#vim /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/library.conf

And add the following code :

ScriptAlias /coverflow.pl "/var/lib/koha/library/plugins/Koha/Plugin/Com/ByWaterSolutions/CoverFlow/coverflow.pl"
Alias /plugin/ "/var/lib/koha/library/plugins/"
<Directory /var/lib/koha/library/plugins/>
      Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
      AllowOverride None
      Require all granted

</Directory>

#/ect/init.d/apache2 restart   //Restart Webserver
#/etc/init.d/memcached restart //Restart memcached

Now go to Koha Global System Preference and in OpacMainUserBlock add the following html tag

<b><h2><center><u><font color="purple">New Arrivals</font></h2></b></u>

<span id="coverflow">Loading...</span></center>

Now check you OPAC page to view the coverflow.