NAME

CGI::Untaint::Facebook - Validate a string is a valid Facebook URL or ID

VERSION

Version 0.13

SYNOPSIS

CGI::Untaint::Facebook validate if a given ID in a form is a valid Facebook ID. The ID can be either a full Facebook URL, or a page on facebook, so 'http://www.facebook.com/nigelhorne' and 'nigelhorne' will both return true.

    use CGI::Info;
    use CGI::Untaint;
    use CGI::Untaint::Facebook;
    # ...
    my $info = CGI::Info->new();
    my $params = $info->params();
    # ...
    my $u = CGI::Untaint->new($params);
    my $tid = $u->extract(-as_Facebook => 'web_address');
    # $tid will be lower case

SUBROUTINES/METHODS

is_valid

Validates the data. Returns a boolean if $self->value is a valid Facebook URL.

AUTHOR

Nigel Horne, <njh at bandsman.co.uk>

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-cgi-untaint-url-facebook at rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=CGI-Untaint-Twitter. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.

SEE ALSO

CGI::Untaint::url

SUPPORT

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

    perldoc CGI::Untaint::Facebook

You can also look for information at:

• RT: CPAN's request tracker

  http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=CGI-Untaint-Facebook

• AnnoCPAN: Annotated CPAN documentation

  http://annocpan.org/dist/CGI-Untaint-Facebook

• CPAN Ratings

  http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/CGI-Untaint-Facebook

• Search CPAN

  http://search.cpan.org/dist/CGI-Untaint-Facebook

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2012-2015 Nigel Horne.

This program is released under the following licence: GPL