NAME Blog::Simple::HTMLOnly - Very simple blogger using Core modules. SYNOPSIS my $sbO = Blog::Simple::HTMLOnly->new(); $sbO->create_index(); #generally only needs to be called once my $content="<p>blah blah blah in XHTM</p><p><b>Better</b> when done in HTML!</p>"; my $title = 'some title'; my $author = 'a.n. author'; my $email = 'anaouthor@somedomain.net'; my $smmry = 'blah blah'; $sbO->add($title,$author,$email,$smmry,$content); my $format = { simple_blog_wrap => '<table width='100%'><tr><td>', simple_blog => '<div class="box">', title => '<div class="title"><b>', author => '<div class="author">', email => '<div class="email">', ts => '<div class="ts">', summary => '<div class="summary">', content => '<div class="content">', }; $sbO->render_current($format,3); $sbO->render_all($format); $sbO->remove('08'); exit; Please see the *.cgi files included in the tar distribution for examples of simple use. DEPENDENCIES None. EXPORT None. DESCRIPTION This is a backwards-compatible modification of "Blog::Simple" by JA Robson <gilad@arbingersys.com>, indentical in all but the need for "XML::XSLT" and Perl 6.1. It also includes an additional method to render a specific blog. Instead of "XML::XSLT", this module uses "HTML::TokeParser", of the core distribution. Naturally formatting is rather restricted, but it can produce some useful results if you know your way around CSS (<http://www.zvon.org|http://www.zvon.org>), and is better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick. USAGE Please read the documentation for Blog::Simple before continuing, but ignore the documentation for the rendering methods. The rendering methods "render_current" and "render_all" no longer take a paramter of an XSLT file, but instead a reference to a hash, the keys of which are the names of the nodes in a "Blog::Simple" XML file, values being HTML to wrap around the named node. Only the opening tags need be supplied: the correct end-tags will supplied in lower-case. For an example, please see the SYNOPSIS. ADDITIONAL METHOD: render_this_blog Renders to "STDOUT" the nominated blogged. In addition to the method's object reference, accepts a date and an author, and a format hash (see above). The date should be in a "localtime" output with spaces turned to underscores ("_"). On success, returns a reference to the Blog in HTML. On failure returns "undef", sending a warning to "STDERR" if you have "warnings" on ("-w"). OTHER MODIFICATIONS TO Blog::Simple The only other things I've changed are: * All files "flock" if not running on Win32 (cygwin is ignored as I don't know if it needs it; presumably it does, though). * The render routines return a reference to a scalar, which is the formatted HTML. -item * "for" loops simplified. SEE ALSO See Blog::Simple, HTML::TokeParser. AUTHOR Lee Goddard (lgoddard -at- cpan -dot- org), Most of the work already done by J. A. Robson, <gilad@arbingersys.com> COPYRIGHT This module: Copyright (C) Lee Goddard, 2003, and J. A. Robson. All Rights Reserved. Made available under the same terms as Perl itself.