Weblog 2.0

New Modules

Weblog Module

I've rewritten the Weblog functionality into a discrete set of modules that can be reused to develop other applications. I did this to make it easier for me to extend the code for use in an aggregator and for being able to post to remote Weblogs via XML-RPC. The modules will probably change in the future, but it's a good set of code where you need to manipulate multiple RSS channels in a production environment. For example, below is a script that loads a channel, adds an item, saves the channel, and outputs the channel to several different formats:

use strict;
use Weblog;

my $config_file = '../config/config.xml';

# create new instance of the Weblog module
my $weblog = new Weblog($config_file);

# get a list of the channels that are available
my @channels = $weblog->list_channels(local  => 1);
foreach my $channel (@channels) {
    print $channel->{'name'},"\n";
}

# load the channel into memory
my $channel = new Weblog::Channel($weblog, "webnews");
$channel->creator('Andy King (aking@internet.com)');
$channel->publisher("Webreference.com");
$channel->subject("Internet/Webdev");
$channel->contributor("Jonathan Eisenzopf");
$channel->type("News Channel");
$channel->format("RSS 1.0");
$channel->identifier("11111");
$channel->source("Author");
$channel->relation("father");
$channel->coverage("eastern");
$channel->rights("2001 internet.com");
$channel ->taxo(['http:www.webref.com',
		 'http://www.news.com']);

# add a new item in the channel
my $item1 = new Weblog::Item(title => 'ddddd',
			    link => 'aaaaaa',
			    description => 'eeeeeeee',
			    taxo => [
				     'http://www.da.com',
				     'http://www.ba.com'
				     ]
);

my $item2 = new Weblog::Item(title => 'ddddd',
			    link => 'aaaaaa',
			    description => 'eeeeeeee'
);

# if you want to add one item to multiple channels
# $weblog->add_item($itemref, "append', $channel1, $channel2, $channel3);

# add the items to a channel
$channel->add_item($item1,"insert");
$channel->add_item($item2,"append");

# save the channel
$channel->save;

# output
my $output = new Weblog::Output($channel,"Template");
#$output->outputall("all");
$output->output("vxml");
$output->output("html");
$output->output("palm");
$output->output("wml");
$output->output("avantgo");

There are several example scripts that I used for testing in addition to the modules themselves that are sitting in the lib/ directory. Feel free to play around with them. This module has not been finalized or fully documented, so expect it to change. When it becomes more stable, I will probably release it to CPAN.