NAME

NAME
Bot::BasicBot::Pluggable::Module::SimpleBlog - A simple URL collector
for Bot::BasicBot::Pluggable.

SYNOPSIS
use Bot::BasicBot::Pluggable;
use Bot::BasicBot::Pluggable::Module::SimpleBlog::Store::SQLite;

my $bot = Bot::BasicBot::Pluggable->new( ... );
$bot->load( "SimpleBlog" );

my $blog_handler = $bot->handler( "SimpleBlog" );

$blog_handler->set_store(
Bot::BasicBot::Pluggable::Module::SimpleBlog::Store::SQLite
->new( "/home/bot/brane.db" )
);

$blog_handler->set_blogurl( "http://example.com/simpleblog.cgi" );

$bot->run;

DESCRIPTION
A plugin module for Bot::BasicBot::Pluggable to grab, store and output
URLs from IRC channels. It is intentionally simplistic - see
Bot::BasicBot::Pluggable::Module::Blog for a more complicated chump-like
thing.

IMPORTANT NOTE WHEN UPGRADING FROM PRE-0.02 VERSIONS
I'd made a thinko in version 0.01 in one of the column names in the
table used to store the URLs in the database, so you'll have to delete
your store file and start again. It didn't seem worth automatically
detecting and fixing this since I only released 0.01 yesterday and I
don't expect anyone to have installed it yet.

METHODS
set_store
my $blog_store =
Bot::BasicBot::Pluggable::Module::SimpleBlog::Store::SQLite->new(
"/home/bot/brane.db" );
$blog_handler->set_store( $blog_store );

Supply a "Bot::BasicBot::Pluggable::Module::SimpleBlog::Store::*"
object.

set_blogurl
$blog_handler->set_blogurl( "http://example.com/simpleblog.cgi" );

Supply the URL for your CGI script to view the stored URLs.

EXAMPLES
use strict;
use warnings;
use Bot::BasicBot::Pluggable;

my $bot = Bot::BasicBot::Pluggable->new(channels => [ "#test" ],
server => "irc.example.com",
port => "6667",
nick => "bot",
username => "bot",
name => "bot",
);
$bot->load( "SimpleBlog" );

my $blog_handler = $bot->handler( "SimpleBlog" );

$blog_handler->set_store(
Bot::BasicBot::Pluggable::Module::SimpleBlog::Store::SQLite
->new( "/home/bot/brane.db" )
);

$blog_handler->set_blogurl( "http://example.com/simpleblog.cgi" );

$bot->run;

Yes, this is your entire program.

The file supplied as an argument to the constructor of
Bot::BasicBot::Pluggable::Module::SimpleBlog::Store::SQLite need not
already exist; it will be created and the correct database schema
set up as necessary.

Talk to the bot on IRC for help:

17:37 <nou> kakebot: help SimpleBlog
<kakebot> nou: Simple URL collector for Bot::BasicBot::Pluggable.
Requires direct addressing. Usage:
'http://foo.com/ # the foo website'. The URLs can be viewed at
http://example.com/simpleblog.cgi

Get stuff out of the database in your favoured fashion, for example:

use strict;
use warnings;
use CGI;
use DBI;

my $sqlite_db = "/home/bot/brane.db";
my $q = CGI->new;
my $dbh = DBI->connect("dbi:SQLite:dbname=$sqlite_db", "", "")
or die DBI->errstr;

print $q->header;
print <<EOF;

<html>
<head><title>simpleblogbot</title></head>
<body><h1 align="center">simpleblogbot</h1>

EOF

my $sql = "SELECT timestamp, name, channel, url, comment FROM blogged
ORDER BY timestamp DESC";
my $sth = $dbh->prepare($sql) or die $dbh->errstr;
$sth->execute;
my ($timestamp, $name, $channel, $url, $comment);

while ( ($timestamp, $name, $channel, $url, $comment)
= $sth->fetchrow_array ) {
print "<br><i>$timestamp</i>: <b>$name/$channel</b>: ";
print "<a href=\"$url\">$url</a> " if $url;
print $q->escapeHTML($comment) if $comment;
}

print "</body></html>\n";

(This will just print everything ever; being more discriminating and
adding prettiness is left as an exercise for people who don't hate
writing CGI scripts.)

At some point there will be
"Bot::BasicBot::Pluggable::Module::Store::*" methods for retrieving
as well as storing the data. Probably.

WARNING
Unstable API - Bot::BasicBot::Pluggable is liable to change and
hence so is this.

BUGS
More tests would be nice.

SEE ALSO
* Bot::BasicBot::Pluggable
* Bot::BasicBot::Pluggable::Module::Blog
* Bot::BasicBot::Pluggable::Module::SimpleBlog::Store::SQLite

AUTHOR
Kake Pugh ([email protected]).

COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2003 Kake Pugh. All Rights Reserved.

This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the same terms as Perl itself.

CREDITS
Tom Insam, author of Bot::BasicBot::Pluggable, answered my dumb
questions on how to get it working. Mark Fowler fixed my bad SQL,
and told me off until I agreed to abstract out the storage and
retrieval bits.