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package Net::AIML
- new
- tell
__END__
EOF

NAME

Net::AIML - Perl interface to the Pandorabots.com AIML server

VERSION

Version 0.0.2

SYNOPSIS

    #!/usr/bin/perl
    package Alice;
    use Net::AIML;
    use IO::Prompt;

    my $bot = Net::AIML->new( botid => be50f516be367d9d ); # Alice
    while (prompt "You: ") {
    	print "Alice: ".$bot->tell($_)."\n";
    }

DESCRIPTION

Pandorabots.com provides an XMLRPC interface to their AIML server. This module wraps that interface into an easy Perl OO interface.

INTERFACE

Net::AIML exports exactly two methods.

new: The only important parameter currently being c< botid > which identifies the bot you wish to use on Pandorabots.com. You can get this botid from Pandorabots.
tell: Given a line of text, tell returns the line returned by pandorabots.

CONFIGURATION AND ENVIRONMENT

Net::AIML uses LWP internally. Any environment variables that LWP supports should be supported by Net::AIML. I hope.

DEPENDENCIES

HTTP::Request::Common
LWP::Simple
LWP::UserAgent
XML::Smart

INCOMPATIBILITIES

None reported.

BUGS AND LIMITATIONS

No bugs have been reported.

Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-net-aiml@rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org.

AUTHOR

Chris Prather <cpan@prather.org>

LICENCE AND COPYRIGHT

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

DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY

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