NAME

Weather::Com::Moon - class containing moon phase information

SYNOPSIS

  #!/usr/bin/perl -w
  use Weather::Com::Finder;

  # you have to fill in your ids from weather.com here
  my $PartnerId  = 'somepartnerid';
  my $LicenseKey = 'mylicense';

  my %weatherargs = (
	'partner_id' => $PartnerId,
	'license'    => $LicenseKey,
	'language'   => 'de',
  );

  my $weather_finder = Weather::Com::Finder->new(%weatherargs);
  
  my @locations = $weather_finder->find('Heidelberg');

  my $currconditions = $locations[0]->current_conditions();

  print "The moon phase is currently ", 
    $currconditions->moon()->description(), "\n";

DESCRIPTION

Via Weather::Com::Moon one can access the current moon phase.

This class will not be updated automatically with each call to one of its methods. You need to call the moon() method of the parent object again to update your object.

CONSTRUCTOR

You usually would not construct an object of this class yourself. This is implicitely done when you call the moon() method of one current conditions or forecast object.

METHODS

description([$language])

Returns a textual description of the current moon phase.

This description is translated if you specified the language option for you Weather::Com::Finder.

This attribute is dynamic language enabled.

icon()

Returns the number of the icon describing the current moon phase.

AUTHOR

Thomas Schnuecker, <thomas@schnuecker.de>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2004-2005 by Thomas Schnuecker

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

The data provided by weather.com and made accessible by this OO interface can be used for free under special terms. Please have a look at the application programming guide of weather.com (http://www.weather.com/services/xmloap.html)!