NAME
WWW::NameGen - A website polling random name generator
SYNOPSIS
This module polls an online name generator for x many random names,
caches internally and returns the results.
use WWW::NameGen;
my $namegen = WWW::NameGen->new();
my @names = $namegen->generate(min => 30);
@morenames = $namegen->generate(min => 350);
@evenmorenames = $namegen->generate(min => 350); # returns cached results as above
WHY
You are probably thinking to yourself right now something like this:
Why did he decided to get the list from a website instead of doing internal
an internal sort of thing?
There are a few reasons:
I'm lazy
I'm lazy and it was a quick hack for something more important than a
random name generator.
name lists are big
I could of included the US Census data and done an internal sort and
what-not but the data is over a meg and I don't want to deal with
it.
someone else already did it
There are already a half dozen (more maybe?) modules that do all
sorts of random word stuff from dictionaries and lists. This website
has also already created a clean and simple random name generator.
There is no point in me rewriting stuff that has already been done.
See point "I'm lazy" for more information.
SUBROUTINES/METHODS
new
Creates and returns a new WWW::NameGen object.
generate
Performs the post request to get a random name list.
This can take several arguments.
min The 'min' value is the minimum count of random names to fetch.
obscurity
The 'obscurity' value is the obscurity of the names to fetch.
type
The 'type' argument is either 1, 2 or 3. One for only males, Two for
only females, or Three for both males and females.
nocache
When the 'nocache' arg is set is will tell the generate function to
ignore the cache and create a new set of names.
get_chunks
Takes a count breaks it into chunks of x.
AUTHOR
Nick Gerakines, "<nick at socklabs.com>"
BUGS
Please report any bugs or feature requests to "bug-www-namegen at
rt.cpan.org", or through the web interface at
<
http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=WWW-NameGen>. I will be
notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your
bug as I make changes.
SUPPORT
You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.
perldoc WWW::NameGen
You can also look for information at:
* AnnoCPAN: Annotated CPAN documentation
<
http://annocpan.org/dist/WWW-NameGen>
* CPAN Ratings
<
http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/WWW-NameGen>
* RT: CPAN's request tracker
<
http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=WWW-NameGen>
* Search CPAN
<
http://search.cpan.org/dist/WWW-NameGen>
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Thanks to whoever runs and owns
http://www.kleimo.com/random/name.cfm
for providing the service that this module calls.
And please, don't waste his bandwidth or be generally rude. Respect the
site so that it will stay up.
COPYRIGHT & LICENSE
Copyright 2006 Nick Gerakines, all rights reserved.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the same terms as Perl itself.
