NAME
    `TAPORlib' - TAPORlib is a Perl module that contains some useful
    functions.

DESCRIPTION
    This library used by some great modules as WWW::Promotion, etc. It is
    provided by TAPOR, Inc.

IMPORTED FUNCTIONS/VARS

  $string = &Delete_CRLF_from_End_Of_String($string);

     Description:

     Function removes trailing "r" and "\n" from end of $string.

  &add_string_to_file("filename",$string);

     Description:

     This function adds $string to the end of file "filename".

  @allfiles = &GetAllFilesInDir($dirname);

     Description:

     This function returns massive that contains filenames with 
     path in directory $dirname and filenames with path in subdirs also.

  %out = &GetPageNow_4(%pagenow);

     Description:
 
     Use this function to get page from website. 

     Usage:

     $pagenow{'url'}     = "http://www.any.com/anyware";
     $pagenow{'method'}  = "POST|GET";
     $pagenow{'referer'} = "http://www.any.com/anyware/ref";
     $pagenow{'content'} = "user=blah\&info=blah-blah";

     # If defined this agent string will be used insted Netscape
     $pagenow{'agent'}

     # If specified Print some useful information to this logfile;
     $pagenow{'logfile'} = "logfile.log";

     # If proxy not specified then Get Page without usage of proxy.
     $pagenow{'proxy'} = "proxy.online.ru:8080";

     # If specified then send to page this cookies
     $pagenow{'cookies'} = "C: 12345";

     # TimeOut to Connect To Proxy/Host. Default: 60
     $pagenow{'timeoutconnect'} = 60;

     # TimeOut to Request Page. Default: 300
     $pagenow{'timeoutrequest'} = 180;

     # No Request Page Return Simple 'FAST MODE' page.
     $pagenow{'norequest'} = 1;

     # Show Error Page If Error Detected
     $pagenow{'showerrors'} = 1;

     %out = &GetPageNow_4(%pagenow);

     Output:
 
     $out{'error'} == 0 - No errors
     $out{'error'} == 1 - Some Error.
     $out{'errortxt'}   - Error description if $out{'error'} == 1
     $out{'status'}  - Status of downloaded page
     $out{'headers'} - Header of downloaded page
     $out{'body'}    - Body of downloaded page
     $out{'cookies'} - Cookies If page return some cookies

  $text = &uri_escape
($text,$pattern);

     Description:

     This function escapes url, commonly used to changes 
     special symbols in url.

     Usage:

     $text    = "sss"
     $pattern = "\x00-\xFF";
     $text = &uri_escape
($text,$pattern);
 
     Output:
 
     $text = "%73%73%73";

  &HTMLdie($text);

     Description:

     Send HTML page with $text to STDOUT and exit program.

  &isrunninglocaly()

     Description:

     Function returns TRUE if script executed in console, FALSE 
     otherwise, e.g. when running under Apache.

  $rndstring = &GenerateRandomString($number);

     Description:

     This function returns string with $number random chars.
 
  &CreateAndSendOutHtmlPage($a,$type);

     Description:

     This function will create HTML page, print it to stdout and exit.
     $type may be:
     1 - CreateAndSendOutHtmlPage() will execute script in
         $a path, print it output to stdout and exit.
     2 - CreateAndSendOutHtmlPage() will read file $a,
         print it contents to stdout and exit.
     3 - CreateAndSendOutHtmlPage() will print string
         "Location: $a\n\n" to stdout and exit.

     Examples:
     CreateAndSendOutHtmlPage("/path/index.cgi",1);
     CreateAndSendOutHtmlPage("/path/index.html",2);
     CreateAndSendOutHtmlPage("http://www.tapor.com",3);
 
  &CheckForDomain($domain);

     Description:
 
     This function does very simple task, it compare $domain with $ENV{'HTTP_HOST'}.
     If equal function returns TRUE otherwise it returns FALSE.

  &SendToDomainIfNotThisDomain($domain);

     Description:

     This function resend Web user to new location if domain not $domain.
     See previous function description.

  $string = &MassiveToString(@massive);

     Description:
 
     This function does very simple task, it convert massive @massive to string
     $string.

  %cc=&GetCountryCodes();

     Description:
     Returns hash with Country codes as:

     %countrycodes = (
        'ca' => 'Canada',
        'af' => 'Afghanistan',
        'al' => 'Albania',
         ...
         );
 
  %out = &newsocketto(*S,$host,$port,$timeoutconnect);

     Description:

     This function returns connected socket to $host:$port if no error.
     $timeoutconnect is time limit to connect to $host:$port.
 
     Usage:

     %out = &newsocketto(*S,$host,$port,$timeoutconnect);
 
     Output:

     $out{'error'} == 0 - No errors
     $out{'error'} == 1 - Some Error.
     $out{'errortxt'}   - Error description if $out{'error'} == 1
     S - connected socket to $host:$port.

COPYRIGHT
    Copyright (c) 2000-2001 TAPOR, Inc. All rights reserved. This program is
    free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same
    terms as Perl itself.

    http://www.tapor.com/TAPORlib/