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Badge-GoogleTalk-0.0.02
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NAME

Badge::GoogleTalk - To get your status message/online status/chat link from google talk badge for website live chat.

VERSION

version 0.0.1

SYNOPSIS

    use Badge::GoogleTalk;
	my $my_object = Badge::GoogleTalk->new(
			key => "your identification key",
	);

	# Get Your Badge's online status
	my $online_status = $my_object->is_online();
	my $ol_status = $online_status == 0 ? "Offline" : "Online";
	
	# Get Your Badge's status message	
	my $status = $my_object->get_status();

	# Check Your Badge's away status
	my $away_status = $my_object->is_away();
	my $aw_status = $away_status == 1 ? "Away" : "Online";
	
	# Check Your Badge's Style
	my $style = $my_object->is_classic_style();
	my $style_status = $style == 1 ? "Classic badge or one/two line style" : "Hyperlink and status icon style";
	
	# Your Badge's in HTML format
	my $badge = $my_object->get_badge();

	# Your chat link for your website
	my $chat_link = $my_object->get_chat_box_link();

	To create a simple Badge::GoogleTalk you must pass the key;
	key is your identification from the google authentication.
	
	To create your chatback badge, visit http://www.google.com/talk/service/badge/New.
	If you're using a Google Apps account,
	you can create a chatback badge by visiting http://www.google.com/talk/service/a/DOMAIN/badge/New where DOMAIN is the name of your domain.
 
	Use the alphanumeric account hash to pass as key in constructor

DESCRIPTION

A simple perl module for retrieving a user's Google Talk status
Google does provide a badge, to post your status/images/links to your
website to start a chat. Using this code, we can extract the status messages, online status,
chat box link and return that information to our perl application to keep up the live chat.

METHODS

is_online

	Title   : is_online
					      
    Function: this will return your online status
	
	return : 1 if online, 0 if offline

is_away

	Title   : is_away
					      
    Function: this will return your away status
	
	return : 1 if away

get_status

	Title   : get_status
					      
    Function: this will return your status message
	
	return : 1 if away

is_classic_style

	Title   : is_classic_style
					      
    Function: this will return your badge style
	
	return : 1 if Classic badge or one/two line style, 0 if Hyperlink and status icon style
	Title   : get_chat_box_link
					      
    Function: this will return you the link of you chat box

get_badge

	Title   : get_badge
					      
    Function: this will return you the badge iframe to use for your website

DIAGNOSTICS

This module depends on the output from a hosted web page by Google. If Google
decides at any time to change this output, the module will likely fail.
Please e-mail me if this is the case, so we can get it working again.

CONFIGURATION AND ENVIRONMENT

Badge::GoogleTalk requires no configuration files or environment variables.

DEPENDENCIES

This module have the dependencies with the following modules
WWW::Mechanize

BUGS AND LIMITATIONS

No bugs have been reported.

Please report any bugs or feature requests to
C<bug-badge-googletalk@rt.cpan.org>, or through the web interface at
L<http://rt.cpan.org>.

AUTHOR

Rakesh Kumar Shardiwal <rakesh.shardiwal@gmail.com>

LICENCE AND COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2009, Rakesh Kumar Shardiwal <rakesh.shardiwal@gmail.com>. 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.

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