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NAME

FS::Misc - Miscellaneous subroutines

SYNOPSIS

 use FS::Misc qw(send_email);

 send_email();

DESCRIPTION

Miscellaneous subroutines. This module contains miscellaneous subroutines called from multiple other modules. These are not OO or necessarily related, but are collected here to eliminate code duplication.

SUBROUTINES

send_email OPTION => VALUE ...
Options:
from
(required)
to
(required) comma-separated scalar or arrayref of recipients
subject
(required)
content-type
(optional) MIME type for the body
body
(required unless nobody is true) arrayref of body text lines
mimeparts
(optional, but required if nobody is true) arrayref of MIME::Entity->build PARAMHASH refs or MIME::Entity objects. These will be passed as arguments to MIME::Entity->attach().
nobody
(optional) when set true, send_email will ignore the body option and simply construct a message with the given mimeparts. In this case, content-type, if specified, overrides the default "multipart/mixed" for the outermost MIME container.
content-encoding
(optional) when using nobody, optional top-level MIME encoding which, if specified, overrides the default "7bit".
type
(optional) type parameter for multipart/related messages
custnum
(optional) FS::cust_main key; if passed, the message will be logged (if logging is enabled) with this custnum.
msgnum
(optional) FS::msg_template key, for logging.
generate_email OPTION => VALUE ...
Options:
from
Sender address, required
to
Recipient address, required
bcc
Blind copy address, optional
subject
email subject, required
html_body
Email body (HTML alternative). Arrayref of lines, or scalar.
Will be placed inside an HTML <BODY> tag.
text_body
Email body (Text alternative). Arrayref of lines, or scalar.
custnum, msgnum (optional)
Customer and template numbers, passed through to send_email for logging.
Constructs a multipart message from text_body and html_body.
process_send_email OPTION => VALUE ...
Takes arguments as per generate_email() and sends the message. This will die on any error and can be used in the job queue.
send_fax OPTION => VALUE ...
Options:
dialstring - (required) 10-digit phone number w/ area code
docdata - (required) Array ref containing PostScript or TIFF Class F document
-or-
docfile - (required) Filename of PostScript TIFF Class F document
...any other options will be passed to Fax::Hylafax::Client::sendfax
states_hash COUNTRY
Returns a list of key/value pairs containing state (or other sub-country division) abbriviations and names.
counties STATE COUNTRY
Returns a list of counties for this state and country.
cities COUNTY STATE COUNTRY
Returns a list of cities for this county, state and country.
state_label STATE COUNTRY_OR_LOCALE_SUBCOUNRY_OBJECT; card_types
Returns a hash reference of the accepted credit card types. Keys are shorter identifiers and values are the longer strings used by the system (see Business::CreditCard).
pkg_freqs
Returns a hash reference of allowed package billing frequencies.
generate_ps FILENAME
Returns an postscript rendition of the LaTex file, as a scalar. FILENAME does not contain the .tex suffix and is unlinked by this function.
generate_pdf FILENAME
Returns an PDF rendition of the LaTex file, as a scalar. FILENAME does not contain the .tex suffix and is unlinked by this function.
print ARRAYREF
Sends the lines in ARRAYREF to the printer.
csv_from_fixed, FILEREF COUNTREF, [ LENGTH_LISTREF, [ CALLBACKS_LISTREF ] ]
Converts the filehandle referenced by FILEREF from fixed length record lines to a CSV file according to the lengths specified in LENGTH_LISTREF. The CALLBACKS_LISTREF refers to a correpsonding list of coderefs. Each should return the value to be substituted in place of its single argument.
Returns false on success or an error if one occurs.
ocr_image IMAGE_SCALAR
Runs OCR on the provided image data and returns a list of text lines.

BUGS

This package exists.

SEE ALSO

FS::UID, FS::CGI, FS::Record, the base documentation.

Fax::Hylafax::Client