NAME

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

SYNOPSIS

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

DESCRIPTION

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

    <!-- loop -->
    <!-- endloop -->

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

body

All the content of the text file. The content is passed through a subroutine before being stored in this variable. The subroutine takes one input, the content stored as a string, and returns it as a string containing html. The default subroutine, add_tags in this module, only surrounds paragraphs with p tags, where paragraphs are separated by a blank line. You can supply a different subroutine by changing the value of the configuration variable page_converter.

title

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:

absolute

If true, urls in a page will be absolute

exclude_files

One or more filenames or patterns to exclude from the index

include_directories

If true, subdirectories will be included in the index

include_files

A space delimited list of expressions used to create the index

index_file

Name of the index file to be created

index_template

The path to the template file, relative to the base directory.

quick_update

Only create index for current directory

web_extension

The extension used for web pages.

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>