NAME

CGI::RSS - provides a CGI-like interface for making rss feeds

SYNOPSIS

use strict;
use CGI::RSS;

# NOTE: This doesn't work either way like CGI.pm, it's only OO...

my $rss = new CGI::RSS;

print $rss->header;
print $rss->begin_rss(title=>"My Feed!", link=>"http://localhost/directory");
while( my $h = $sth->fetchrow_hashref ) {
    print $rss->item(
        $rss->title       ( $h->{title} ),
        $rss->link        ( $h->{link}  ),
        $rss->description ( $h->{desc}  ),
        $rss->date        ( $h->{date}  ),
    );
}
print $rss->finish_rss;

TAGS

RSS TAGS

The following tags work anywhere. There is no enforcement for where they belong. They're just tag functions.

rss channel item title link description language copyright
managingEditor webMaster pubDate lastBuildDate category
generator docs cloud ttl image rating textInput skipHours
skipDays link description author category comments enclosure
guid pubDate source date url

MORE TAGS

RSS.pm tricks CGI.pm into thinking the above tags are are valid html tags. It does this at run time so you can add your own.

push @CGI::RSS::TAGS, "mytagname";

The construction of CGI.pm's _make_tag_func() rule's out namespaces (e.g., push @CGI::RSS::TAGS, "myns:mytag"), if you have any suggestions on how to handle this, please let me know.

I had considered writing a CGI::RSS::_make_tag_func() that converts the ':' to a '_' in the function name... That's harder than it sounds so I let it go for now.

TODO

I just wanted to get this thing working for now, but I'm not proud of the module. In the future, I'd like to actually follow a standard.

1. conform to standard(s) if possible
2. deal with xmlns somehow

AUTHOR

Paul Miller <jettero@cpan.org>

I am using this software in my own projects... If you find bugs, please please please let me know. :) Actually, let me know if you find it handy at all. Half the fun of releasing this stuff is knowing that people use it.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2007 Paul Miller -- LGPL [attached]

SEE ALSO

CGI