NAME App::Pocoirc - The guts of pocoirc DESCRIPTION This distribution provides a generic way to launch IRC clients which use POE::Component::IRC. The main features are: * Prints useful status information (to your terminal and/or a log file) * Will daemonize if you so wish * Supports a configuration file * Offers a user friendly way to pass arguments to POE::Component::IRC * Supports multiple IRC components and lets you specify which plugins to load locally (one object per component) or globally (single object) CONFIGURATION nick: foobar1234 username: foobar global_plugins: - [CTCP] local_plugins: - [BotTraffic] networks: - name: freenode server: irc.freenode.net local_plugins: - [AutoJoin, { Channels: ['#foodsfdsf'] } ] - name: magnet server: irc.perl.org nick: hlagherf32fr The configuration file is in YAML format. It consists of a hash containing "global_plugins", "local_plugins", "networks", "lib", "log_file", and default parameters to POE::Component::IRC. Only "networks" is required. "lib" is an array of directories containing Perl modules (e.g. plugins). Just like Perl's *-I*. "log_file" is the path to a log to which status messages will be written. "network" The "network" option should be an array of network hashes. A network hash consists of "name", "local_plugins", and parameters to POE::Component::IRC. Only "name" and "server" (a POE::Component::IRC parameter) are required. The POE::Component::IRC parameters specified in this hash will override the ones specified at the top level. Plugins The "global_plugins" and "local_plugins" options should consist of an array containing the short plugin class name (e.g. 'AutoJoin') and optionally a hash of arguments to that plugin. App::Pocoirc will first try to load POE::Component::IRC::Plugin::*your_plugin* before trying to load *your_plugin*. The plugins in "global_plugins" will be instantiated once and then added to all IRC components. Note: not all plugins are designed to be used with multiple IRC components simultaneously If you specify "local_plugins" at the top level, it will serve as a default list of local plugins, which can be overridden in a network hash. TODO * Check if a plugin is already loaded before calling require() on it AUTHOR Hinrik Örn Sigurðsson, hinrik.sig@gmail.com LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT Copyright 2010 Hinrik Örn Sigurðsson This program is free software, you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.