NAME

TextLinkAds - Retrieve Text Link Ads advertiser data

SYNOPSIS

use TextLinkAds;

my $tla = TextLinkAds->new;

# Fetch link information from text-link-ads.com...

my @links = @{ $tla->fetch( $inventory_key ) };

# Output the data in some meaningful way...

        print "<ul>\n";
        foreach my $link ( @links ) {
            my $before = $link->{BeforeText} || '';
            my $after  = $link->{AfterText}  || '';

            print <<"END_OF_HTML";
            <li>
                $before <a href="$link->{URL}">$link->{Text}</a> $after
            </li>
        END_OF_HTML
        }
        print '</ul>';

DESCRIPTION

This module fetches advertiser information for a given Text Link Ads publisher account.

See <http://www.text-link-ads.com/publisher_program.php?ref=23206>.

METHODS
->new( \%options )
Instantiate a new TextLinkAds object.

%options
cache

        Optional. By default this module will try to use Cache::FileCache to
        store data retrieved from the text-link-ads.com site for one hour.
        You may use the "cache" parameter to provide an alternative object
        that implements the Cache::Cache interface. To disable caching set
        "cache" to a scalar value that resolves to "false".

tmpdir

        Optional. A temporary directory to use when caching data. The
        default behaviour is to use the directory determined by
        File::Spec->tmpdir.

->fetch( $inventory_key, \%options )
Fetch advertiser information for the given key. It will first attempt to get the data from the cache where available, and failing that will send a request to text-link-ads.com, using the *proxy environment variables and the If-ModifiedSince request header.

$inventory_key
Required. The XML Key for the desired site as provided by Text Link Ads.

%options
user_agent

        Optional. In the vanilla code examples provided by Text Link Ads,
        both the user agent and referer CGI environment variables are
        included in the URI used to retrieve the XML data. While the link
        appears to function without them, it would probably be polite to
        include them where possible.

referer

See above.

DEPENDENCIES

TextLinkAds requires the following modules:

• Carp
• File::Spec
• LWP::UserAgent
• XML::Simple

TextLinkAds recommends the following modules:

• Cache::FileCache

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests to "bug-textlinkads at rt.cpan.org", or through the web interface at <http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=TextLinkAds>.

SUPPORT

You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

perldoc TextLinkAds

You may also look for information at:

• TextLinkAds

  <http://perlprogrammer.co.uk/modules/TextLinkAds/>

• AnnoCPAN: Annotated CPAN documentation

  <http://annocpan.org/dist/TextLinkAds/>

• RT: CPAN's request tracker

  <http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=TextLinkAds>

• Search CPAN

  <http://search.cpan.org/dist/TextLinkAds/>

AUTHOR

Dave Cardwell <dcardwell@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (c) 2007 Dave Cardwell. All rights reserved.

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