NAME

App::Followme::CreateIndex - Create index file for a directory

SYNOPSIS

    use App::Followme::CreateIndex;
    my $indexer = App::Followme::CreateIndex->new($configuration);
    $indexer->run($directory);

DESCRIPTION

This package builds an index for a directory containing links to all the files contained in it with the specified extensions. The variables described below are substituted into a template to produce the index. Loop comments that look like

    <!-- for @loop -->
    <!-- endfor -->

indicate the section of the template that is repeated for each file contained in the index.

absolute_url

The absolute_url of the web page.

body

If a file is a web (html) file, the body is all the text inside the content tags in an page.

title

If the file is a web (html) file, the title is the text contained in the header tags at the top of the page. if not, the title of the page is derived from the file name by removing the filename extension, removing any leading digits,replacing dashes with spaces, and capitalizing the first character of each word.

url

The relative url of each file.

time fields

The variables calculated from the modification time are: weekday, month, monthnum, day, year, hour24, hour, ampm, minute, and second.

CONFIGURATION

The following fields in the configuration file are used:

index_file

Name of the index file to be created

index_include

A comma separated list of filename patterns used to create the index

index_template

The name of the template file. The template file is either in the same directory as the configuration file used to invoke this method, or if not there, in the templates subdirectory.

LICENSE

Copyright (C) Bernie Simon.

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

AUTHOR

Bernie Simon <bernie.simon@gmail.com>