use POE::Component::IRC::Common qw/l_irc/; use DBI; use DBD::SQLite; sub { my( $said, $pm ) = @_; my $body = $said->{body}; s/^\s+//, s/\s+$// for $body; warn "KARMAPLUGIN"; use Data::Dumper; warn Dumper $said; my $dbh = DBI->connect( "dbi:SQLite:dbname=var/karma.db", "", "", { RaiseError => 1, PrintError => 0 } ); my $lirc = l_irc($said->{body}) || lc $said->{body}; warn "SUBJECT: $lirc"; my $karma = $dbh->selectrow_arrayref( "SELECT sum(operation) FROM karma WHERE subject = ?", undef, $lirc, ); if( $karma and @$karma) { if ($karma->[0]) { print "$body has karma of $karma->[0]"; } else { print "$body has no karma"; } } } __DATA__ karma ; returns the "karma" value for a user or arbitrary subject. Karma works by appending either ++ or -- to a word to modify its karma.