NAME
    Test::Pod::LinkCheck - Tests POD for invalid links

VERSION
      This document describes v0.005 of Test::Pod::LinkCheck - released February 21, 2011 as part of Test-Pod-LinkCheck.

SYNOPSIS
            #!/usr/bin/perl
            use strict; use warnings;

            use Test::More;

            eval "use Test::Pod::LinkCheck";
            if ( $@ ) {
                    plan skip_all => 'Test::Pod::LinkCheck required for testing POD';
            } else {
                    Test::Pod::LinkCheck->new->all_pod_ok;
            }

DESCRIPTION
    This module looks for any links in your POD and verifies that they point
    to a valid resource. It uses the Pod::Simple parser to analyze the pod
    files and look at their links. In a nutshell, it looks for "L<Foo>"
    links and makes sure that Foo exists. It also recognizes section links,
    "L</SYNOPSIS>" for example. Also, manpages are resolved and checked.

    This module does NOT check "http" links like "L<http://www.google.com>"
    in your pod. For that, please check out Test::Pod::No404s.

    Normally, you wouldn't want this test to be run during end-user
    installation because they might not have the modules installed! It is
    HIGHLY recommended that this be used only for module authors'
    RELEASE_TESTING phase. To do that, just modify the synopsis to add an
    env check :)

    This module normally uses the OO method to run tests, but you can use
    the functional style too. Just explicitly ask for the "all_pod_ok" or
    "pod_ok" function to be imported when you use this module.

            #!/usr/bin/perl
            use strict; use warnings;
            use Test::Pod::LinkCheck qw( all_pod_ok );
            all_pod_ok();

ATTRIBUTES
  check_cpan
    If enabled, this module will check the CPAN module database to see if a
    link is a valid CPAN module or not. It uses the backend defined in
    "cpan_backend" to do the actual searching.

    If disabled, it will resolve links based on locally installed modules.
    If it isn't installed it will be an error!

    The default is: true

  cpan_backend
    Selects the CPAN backend to use for querying modules. The available ones
    are: CPANPLUS, CPAN, and CPANSQLite.

    The default is: CPANPLUS

            The backends were tested and verified against those versions. Older versions would work, but is untested!
                    CPANPLUS v0.9010
                    CPAN v1.9402
                    CPAN::SQLite v0.199

  cpan_backend_auto
    Enable to automatically try the CPAN backends to find an available one.
    It will try the backends in the order defined in "cpan_backend"

    If no backend is available, it will disable the "check_cpan" attribute
    and enable the "cpan_section_err" attribute.

    The default is: true

  cpan_section_err
    If enabled, a link pointing to a CPAN module's specific section is
    treated as an error if it isn't installed.

    The default is: false

  verbose
    If enabled, this module will print extra diagnostics for the links it's
    checking.

    The default is: false

METHODS
  pod_ok
    Accepts the filename to check, and an optional test name.

    This method will pass the test if there is no POD links present in the
    POD or if all links are not an error. Furthermore, if the POD was
    malformed as reported by Pod::Simple, the test will fail and not attempt
    to check the links.

    When it fails, this will show any failing links as diagnostics. Also,
    some extra information is printed if verbose is enabled.

    The default test name is: "LinkCheck test for FILENAME"

  all_pod_ok
    Accepts an optional array of files to check. By default it uses all POD
    files in your distribution.

    This method is what you will usually run. Every file is passed to the
    "pod_ok" function. This also sets the test plan to be the number of
    files.

NOTES
  backend
    This module uses the CPANPLUS and CPAN modules as the backend to verify
    valid CPAN modules. Please make sure that the backend you choose is
    properly configured before running this! This means the index is
    updated, permissions is set, and whatever else the backend needs to
    properly function. If you don't want to use them please disable the
    "check_cpan" attribute.

    If this module fails to check CPAN modules or the testsuite fails, it's
    probably because of the above reason.

  CPAN module sections
    One limitation of this module is that it can't check for valid sections
    on CPAN modules if they aren't installed. If you want that to be an
    error, please enable the "cpan_section_err" attribute.

SEE ALSO
    Please see those modules/websites for more information related to this
    module.

    *   App::PodLinkCheck

    *   Pod::Checker

    *   Test::Pod::No404s

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

      perldoc Test::Pod::LinkCheck

  Websites
    The following websites have more information about this module, and may
    be of help to you. As always, in addition to those websites please use
    your favorite search engine to discover more resources.

    *   Search CPAN

        <http://search.cpan.org/dist/Test-Pod-LinkCheck>

    *   RT: CPAN's Bug Tracker

        <http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=Test-Pod-LinkCheck>

    *   AnnoCPAN: Annotated CPAN documentation

        <http://annocpan.org/dist/Test-Pod-LinkCheck>

    *   CPAN Ratings

        <http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/Test-Pod-LinkCheck>

    *   CPAN Forum

        <http://cpanforum.com/dist/Test-Pod-LinkCheck>

    *   CPANTS Kwalitee

        <http://cpants.perl.org/dist/overview/Test-Pod-LinkCheck>

    *   CPAN Testers Results

        <http://cpantesters.org/distro/T/Test-Pod-LinkCheck.html>

    *   CPAN Testers Matrix

        <http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=Test-Pod-LinkCheck>

  Email
    You can email the author of this module at "APOCAL at cpan.org" asking
    for help with any problems you have.

  Internet Relay Chat
    You can get live help by using IRC ( Internet Relay Chat ). If you don't
    know what IRC is, please read this excellent guide:
    <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Relay_Chat>. Please be courteous
    and patient when talking to us, as we might be busy or sleeping! You can
    join those networks/channels and get help:

    *   irc.perl.org

        You can connect to the server at 'irc.perl.org' and join this
        channel: #perl-help then talk to this person for help: Apocalypse.

    *   irc.freenode.net

        You can connect to the server at 'irc.freenode.net' and join this
        channel: #perl then talk to this person for help: Apocal.

    *   irc.efnet.org

        You can connect to the server at 'irc.efnet.org' and join this
        channel: #perl then talk to this person for help: Ap0cal.

  Bugs / Feature Requests
    Please report any bugs or feature requests by email to
    "bug-test-pod-linkcheck at rt.cpan.org", or through the web interface at
    <http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=Test-Pod-LinkCheck>. You
    will be automatically notified of any progress on the request by the
    system.

  Source Code
    The code is open to the world, and available for you to hack on. Please
    feel free to browse it and play with it, or whatever. If you want to
    contribute patches, please send me a diff or prod me to pull from your
    repository :)

    <http://github.com/apocalypse/perl-test-pod-linkcheck>

      git clone git://github.com/apocalypse/perl-test-pod-linkcheck.git

AUTHOR
    Apocalypse <APOCAL@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
    This software is copyright (c) 2011 by Apocalypse.

    This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
    the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.

    The full text of the license can be found in the LICENSE file included
    with this distribution.