NAME

OpenGuides - A complete web application for managing a collaboratively-written guide to a city or town.

DESCRIPTION

The OpenGuides software provides the framework for a collaboratively-written city guide. It is similar to a wiki but provides somewhat more structured data storage allowing you to annotate wiki pages with information such as category, location, and much more. It provides searching facilities including "find me everything within a certain distance of this place". Every page includes a link to a machine-readable (RDF) version of the page.

METHODS

new

my $config = OpenGuides::Config->new( file => "wiki.conf" );
my $guide = OpenGuides->new( config => $config );

wiki

An accessor, returns the underlying CGI::Wiki object.

config

An accessor, returns the underlying OpenGuides::Config object.

locator

An accessor, returns the underlying CGI::Wiki::Plugin::Locator::UK object.

differ

An accessor, returns the underlying CGI::Wiki::Plugin::Diff object.

display_node

# Print node to STDOUT.
$guide->display_node(
                        id      => "Calthorpe Arms",
                        version => 2,
                    );

# Or return output as a string (useful for writing tests).
$guide->display_node(
                        id            => "Calthorpe Arms",
                        return_output => 1,
                    );

# Or return the hash of variables that will be passed to the template
# (not including those set additionally by OpenGuides::Template).
$guide->display_node(
                        id             => "Calthorpe Arms",
                        return_tt_vars => 1,
                    );

If version is omitted then the latest version will be displayed.

display_recent_changes

$guide->display_recent_changes;

As with other methods, the return_output parameter can be used to return the output instead of printing it to STDOUT.

display_diffs

$guide->display_diffs(
                         id            => "Home Page",
                         version       => 6,
                         other_version => 5,
                     );

# Or return output as a string (useful for writing tests).
my $output = $guide->display_diffs(
                                      id            => "Home Page",
                                      version       => 6,
                                      other_version => 5,
                                      return_output => 1,
                                  );

# Or return the hash of variables that will be passed to the template
# (not including those set additionally by OpenGuides::Template).
my %vars = $guide->display_diffs(
                                    id             => "Home Page",
                                    version        => 6,
                                    other_version  => 5,
                                    return_tt_vars => 1,
                                );

find_within_distance

$guide->find_within_distance(
                                id => $node,
                                metres => $q->param("distance_in_metres")
                            );

show_backlinks

$guide->show_backlinks( id => "Calthorpe Arms" );

As with other methods, parameters return_tt_vars and return_output can be used to return these things instead of printing the output to STDOUT.

show_index

$guide->show_index(
                      type   => "category",
                      value  => "pubs",
                  );

# RDF version.
$guide->show_index(
                      type   => "locale",
                      value  => "Holborn",
                      format => "rdf",
                  );

# Or return output as a string (useful for writing tests).
$guide->show_index(
                      type          => "category",
                      value         => "pubs",
                      return_output => 1,
                  );

list_all_versions

$guide->list_all_versions ( id => "Home Page" );

# Or return output as a string (useful for writing tests).
$guide->list_all_versions (
                              id            => "Home Page",
                              return_output => 1,
                          );

# Or return the hash of variables that will be passed to the template
# (not including those set additionally by OpenGuides::Template).
$guide->list_all_versions (
                              id             => "Home Page",
                              return_tt_vars => 1,
                          );

display_feed

# Last ten non-minor edits to Hammersmith pages in RSS 1.0 format
$guide->display_feed(
                       feed_type          => 'rss',
                       items              => 10,
                       ignore_minor_edits => 1,
                       locale             => "Hammersmith",
                   );

feed_type is a mandatory parameter. Supported values at present are "rss".

As with other methods, the return_output parameter can be used to return the output instead of printing it to STDOUT.

commit_node

$guide->commit_node(
                       id      => $node,
                       cgi_obj => $q,
                   );

As with other methods, parameters return_tt_vars and return_output can be used to return these things instead of printing the output to STDOUT.

The geographical data that you should provide in the CGI object depends on the handler you chose in wiki.conf.

• British National Grid - provide either os_x and os_y or latitude and longitude; whichever set of data you give, it will be converted to the other and both sets will be stored.

• Irish National Grid - provide either osie_x and osie_y or latitude and longitude; whichever set of data you give, it will be converted to the other and both sets will be stored.

• UTM ellipsoid - provide latitude and longitude; these will be converted to easting and northing and both sets of data will be stored.

delete_node

$guide->delete_node(
                       id       => "FAQ",
                       version  => 15,
                       password => "beer",
                   );

version is optional - if it isn't supplied then all versions of the node will be deleted; in other words the node will be entirely removed.

If password is not supplied then a form for entering the password will be displayed.

As with other methods, parameters return_tt_vars and return_output can be used to return these things instead of printing the output to STDOUT.

BUGS AND CAVEATS

UTF8 data are currently not handled correctly throughout.

Other bugs are documented at http://dev.openguides.org/

SEE ALSO

• http://london.openguides.org/, the first and biggest OpenGuides site.

• http://openguides.org/, with a list of all live OpenGuides installs.

• CGI::Wiki, the Wiki toolkit which does the heavy lifting for OpenGuides

FEEDBACK

If you have a question, a bug report, or a patch, or you're interested in joining the development team, please contact openguides-dev@openguides.org (moderated mailing list, will reach all current developers but you'll have to wait for your post to be approved) or file a bug report at http://dev.openguides.org/

AUTHOR

The OpenGuides Project (openguides-dev@openguides.org)

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2003-2006 The OpenGuides Project.  All Rights Reserved.

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

CREDITS

Programming by Dominic Hargreaves, Earle Martin, Kake Pugh, and Ivor Williams. Testing and bug reporting by Billy Abbott, Jody Belka, Kerry Bosworth, Simon Cozens, Cal Henderson, Steve Jolly, and Bob Walker (among others). Much of the Module::Build stuff copied from the Siesta project http://siesta.unixbeard.net/