Webmaster Forum / Perl / Modules / June 2007

I have written a (proof of concept of a) module which I think should be
shared through CPAN.  Since I'm giving a lightning talk on it tomorrow
at YAPC::NA, now seems like an ideal time to actually share it.
Descriptive short blurb:

I'm trying to install Newt on a Kubuntu 7 box using CPAN shell and get
a message:
listbox.c: in function listboxEvent:
listbox.c: 634: error: label at end of compound statement.

I am looking for a module, to make a base class module, that
automatically loads sub class modules.
Usually, to make a new Digest::MD5.pm module instance, you type
$inst = Digest::MD5->new(@args);

Wednesday, 27 June, 2007 10:34
Module Name Proposal - Text::Report
I have created a module that will allow you to create neatly
formatted, text based reports that contain any number of tables of

 I currently have two embedded perl pages, one that gathers a bunch
of data and displays it (view.epl), and another that returns a gif
image of the data with GD::Graph (graph.epl)  The first page calls the
second page in an img src=graph.epl?data=1,2,3 format

trying to do <TMPL_IF <TMPL_VAR myvar>>do something</TMPL_IF>
is something like this possible? if not, any workarounds?

In one sentence: Given an XML file and an XPath pointing to a certain
node, how can I find the line-number of that node in the original XML
file?
I am building a script that reads an XML file, checks it against a

Apparently, "use bignum;" causes problems with looks_like_number.
Background:
My code makes a call to Finance::Math:IRR to compute an Internal Rate of
return.

I have this module I wrote years ago and have been using forever in my
own projects and I want to share it with the world.  But I can't make
up my mind what to call the durn thing.  i want to get it on CPAN so I
can more easily reuse it in various apps, instead of just manually

Does anyone know of a Perl module that talks to a WordPress database?
I'm thinking of writing one but prefer to avoid wheel reinvention.

I've got two images on my Hard Disk ('pic1.jpg' and 'pic2.jpg') and
would like to join them both into a unique one ('mypic.jpg').
Is it possible with 'GD::Image'? Thank you very much.

I am making the wrappers for the p2kmoto library
(http://moto4lin.sf.net); despite the name, the library
should work on Win32 and Mac too.
 Looking on search.cpan.org, it seems that Phone is not a TLN,

The MIME::Base64 will convert \n to \r\n.
$a="1234\n4567\n";
$a=encode_base64($a,0);
print decode_base64($a);

I tried to install inline C. I am facing serious problems.
I tried like
C:\perl123\Inline-0.44>perl makefile.pl
Warning: prerequisite Parse::RecDescent 1.8 not found.

0.20    Fri 30 May 2007
    - perlcritic OK
    - CSV parsing now uses getline (), and auto-detects eol
      Assumes first line does not contain embedded eol. This implies that