README for XML-RSS-TimingBotDBI
                                        Time-stamp: "2004-04-24 01:47:41 ADT"

NAME

XML::RSS::TimingBotDBI - XML::RSS::TimingBot-subclass that saves state with DBI

SYNOPSIS
      use XML::RSS::TimingBotDBI;
      use DBI;
  
      my $dbh = DBI->connect( 'whatever...' )
       || die "Can't connect: $DBI::errstr\nAborting";
  
      my $table = "myrsstable";
  
      $browser = XML::RSS::TimingBotDBI->new;
      $browser->rssagent_dbh($dbh);
      $browser->rssagent_table($table);
  
      my $response = $browser->get(
        'http://interglacial.com/rss/cairo_times.rss'
      );

      ... And process $response just as if it came from
         a plain old LWP::UserAgent object, for example: ...
  
      if($response->code == '200') {
        ...process it...
      }

DESCRIPTION
    This class is for requesting RSS feeds only as often as needed, and
    storing in a database the data about how often what feeds can be
    requested.

    This is a subclass of XML::RSS::TimingBot's methods that stores its data
    in a DBI database object that you specify, instead of using
    XML::RSS::TimingBot's behavior of storing in a local flat-file database.

    To use this class, "use" it, create a new object of this class, and "use
    DBI" and make a new database handle-object; then use "rssagent_dbh" to
    assign that handle to this TimingBotDBI object; and use
    "rssagent_url_field", "rssagent_lastmod_field",
    "rssagent_nextupdate_field", and "rssagent_fetag_field" to set up the
    right table/field names; and then, finally, you can use the TimingBotDBI
    object just like a LWP::UserAgent (actually LWP::UserAgent::Determined)
    object, to request RSS feeds.


[continued in the documentation for this module, which you can read
with perldoc]


INSTALLATION

You install this Perl module, as you would install any Perl module
library, by running these commands:

   perl Makefile.PL
   make
   make test
   make install

If you want to install a private copy of this module in your home
directory, then you should try to produce the initial Makefile with
something like this command:

  perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=~/perl

See "perldoc perlmodinstall" for more information and advice.


This module doesn't depend on XML::RSS, nor in fact have any
particular relationship with it.