SocialStats: Need Programmers Collaboration for WordPress Plugin

If you want to help out you can do so over at the GitHub page:

https://github.com/bhadaway/SocialStats-WordPress-Plugin

A plugin to collect, combine and display FeedBurner, Facebook and Twitter subscriber/fan/follower stats.

Download and test plugin from here.

I’m working on the plugin version of the following script:

http://www.problogdesign.com/wordpress/how-to-get-facebook-twitter-and-rss-counts-wp/

(with permission of its writer of course)

As you’ll find out quickly I’m not a programmer myself, only a web and graphic designer. So when it comes to programming it’s experimental and I usually need help.

So if anyone agrees that this would make a great plugin and would like to collaborate (and receive an added credit of course) take a look at the code I have so far below.

From a PHP programmers perspective you can probably see the basic concept of my attempt;

– Settings page and option saving is working and in place

– The code is being delivered to the front-end (perhaps in the wrong place)

– However I’m sure there are some logic and syntax errors

– The main problem I’m sure is that the attempted delivery of:

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to the front-end is incorrect for a number of reasons.

The second main part see below main plugin code.

[[code]]s:5575:\"&lt;?php<br />
/*<br />
Plugin Name: SocialStats<br />
Version: 1.0<{[&*&]}br />
Plugin URI: http://bryanhadaway.com/socialstats/<br />
Description: Al{[&*&]}lows you to collect and combine your FeedBurner Subscribers, Facebook Fans a{[&*&]}nd Twitter Followers into one plain text number for you to place anywhere an{[&*&]}d style however you like. This plugin is created from the script written by {[&*&]}Michael Martin of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.problogdesign.com/&quot; targe{[&*&]}t=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.problogdesign.com/&lt;/a&gt;.<br />
Autho{[&*&]}r: Bryan Hadaway<br />
Author URI: http://bryanhadaway.com/<br />
<br />
Thi{[&*&]}s code is completely free and open source. Original script written by Michae{[&*&]}l Martin.<br />
*/<br />
<br />
function ss_get_transient($name = &#39;twitt{[&*&]}er&#39;) {<br />
$transName = &quot;ss-transient-$name&quot;;<br />
$cacheTi{[&*&]}me = 24;<br />
if(false === ($trans = get_transient($transName) ) ) :<br />
{[&*&]}$func = &quot;ss_get_$name&quot;;<br />
if(function_exists($func) ) {<br />
{[&*&]}$trans = $func();<br />
} else {<br />
$trans = &#39;Function not found.&#39{[&*&]};;<br />
}<br />
if(!absint($trans) &gt; 0)<br />
$trans = get_transient($tr{[&*&]}ansName . &#39;-old&#39;);<br />
set_transient($transName, $trans, 60 * 60 *{[&*&]} $cacheTime);<br />
set_transient($transName.&#39;-old&#39;, $trans, 3 * 60 {[&*&]}* 60 * $cacheTime);<br />
endif;<br />
return $trans;<br />
}<br />
function{[&*&]} ss_get_rss() {<br />
$xml = wp_remote_get(&#39;http://feedburner.google.com{[&*&]}/api/awareness/1.0/GetFeedData?uri=&lt;?php echo ss_feedburner; ?&gt;&#39;);{[&*&]}<br />
if(is_wp_error($xml))<br />
return false;<br />
$sxe = new SimpleXMLE{[&*&]}lement($xml[&#39;body&#39;]);<br />
return intval($sxe-&gt;feed-&gt;entry[&#{[&*&]}39;circulation&#39;]);<br />
}<br />
function ss_get_facebook() {<br />
$jso{[&*&]}n = wp_remote_get(&quot;http://graph.facebook.com/&lt;?php echo ss_facebook;{[&*&]} ?&gt;&quot;);<br />
if(is_wp_error($json))<br />
return false;<br />
$fbDat{[&*&]}a = json_decode($json[&#39;body&#39;], true);<br />
return intval($fbData[&#{[&*&]}39;likes&#39;]);<br />
}<br />
function ss_get_twitter() {<br />
$json = wp_{[&*&]}remote_get(&quot;http://api.twitter.com/1/users/show.json?screen_name=&lt;?p{[&*&]}hp echo ss_twitter; ?&gt;&quot;);<br />
if(is_wp_error($json))<br />
return {[&*&]}false;<br />
$twitterData = json_decode($json[&#39;body&#39;], true);<br />
{[&*&]}return intval($twitterData[&#39;followers_count&#39;]);<br />
}<br />
<br />{[&*&]}
add_action(&#39;admin_menu&#39;, &#39;ss_create_menu&#39;);<br />
<br />
fu{[&*&]}nction ss_create_menu() {<br />
<br />
add_options_page(&#39;SocialStats Set{[&*&]}tings&#39;, &#39;SocialStats&#39;, &#39;administrator&#39;, __FILE__, &#39;s{[&*&]}s_settings_page&#39;,plugins_url(&#39;wp-admin/images/marker.png&#39;, __FIL{[&*&]}E__));<br />
<br />
add_action( &#39;admin_init&#39;, &#39;register_mysettin{[&*&]}gs&#39; );<br />
}<br />
<br />
function register_mysettings() {<br />
regis{[&*&]}ter_setting( &#39;ss-settings-group&#39;, &#39;ss_feedburner&#39; );<br />
r{[&*&]}egister_setting( &#39;ss-settings-group&#39;, &#39;ss_facebook&#39; );<br />{[&*&]}
register_setting( &#39;ss-settings-group&#39;, &#39;ss_twitter&#39; );<br /{[&*&]}>
}<br />
<br />
function ss_settings_page() {<br />
?&gt;<br />
&lt;div cla{[&*&]}ss=&quot;wrap&quot;&gt;<br />
&lt;h2&gt;SocialStats Settings&lt;/h2&gt;<br /{[&*&]}>
&lt;em&gt;Note: This doesn&#39;t work for personal Facebook profiles, only{[&*&]} pages. To convert your profile to a page you can use &lt;a href=&quot;https{[&*&]}://www.facebook.com/pages/create.php?migrate&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;{[&*&]}&gt;this tool&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;<br />
<br />
&lt;form method=&quot;post&{[&*&]}quot; action=&quot;options.php&quot;&gt;<br />
&lt;?php settings_fields( &#3{[&*&]}9;ss-settings-group&#39; ); ?&gt;<br />
&lt;?php do_settings_sections( &#39;{[&*&]}ss-settings-group&#39; ); ?&gt;<br />
&lt;table class=&quot;form-table&quot;{[&*&]}&gt;<br />
&lt;tr valign=&quot;top&quot;&gt;<br />
&lt;th scope=&quot;row&qu{[&*&]}ot;&gt;FeedBurner&lt;br /&gt; &lt;small&gt;(&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:{[&*&]}//feeds.feedburner.com/bryanhadawaysblog&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;{[&*&]}feeds.feedburner.com/&lt;strong&gt;bryanhadawaysblog&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt{[&*&]};&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/th&gt;<br />
&lt;td&gt;&lt;input type=&quot;{[&*&]}text&quot; name=&quot;ss_feedburner&quot; value=&quot;&lt;?php echo get_opti{[&*&]}on(&#39;ss_feedburner&#39;); ?&gt;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;<br />
&lt;/tr&gt;<{[&*&]}br />
<br />
&lt;tr valign=&quot;top&quot;&gt;<br />
&lt;th scope=&quot;row&{[&*&]}quot;&gt;Facebook&lt;br /&gt; &lt;small&gt;(&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:{[&*&]}//www.facebook.com/calmestghost&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;facebook.{[&*&]}com/&lt;strong&gt;calmestghost&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/smal{[&*&]}l&gt;&lt;/th&gt;<br />
&lt;td&gt;&lt;input type=&quot;text&quot; name=&quot;{[&*&]}ss_facebook&quot; value=&quot;&lt;?php echo get_option(&#39;ss_facebook&#39;{[&*&]}); ?&gt;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;<br />
&lt;/tr&gt;<br />
<br />
&lt;tr valign{[&*&]}=&quot;top&quot;&gt;<br />
&lt;th scope=&quot;row&quot;&gt;Twitter&lt;br /&g{[&*&]}t; &lt;small&gt;(&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/calmestghost&{[&*&]}quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;twitter.com/&lt;strong&gt;calmestghost&lt{[&*&]};/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/th&gt;<br />
&lt;td&gt;{[&*&]}&lt;input type=&quot;text&quot; name=&quot;ss_twitter&quot; value=&quot;&lt;{[&*&]}?php echo get_option(&#39;ss_twitter&#39;); ?&gt;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;<br {[&*&]}/>
&lt;/tr&gt;<br />
&lt;/table&gt;<br />
<br />
&lt;p class=&quot;submit&qu{[&*&]}ot;&gt;<br />
&lt;input type=&quot;submit&quot; id=&quot;submit&quot; class={[&*&]}&quot;button-primary&quot; value=&quot;&lt;?php esc_attr_e(&#39;Save Changes{[&*&]}&#39;); ?&gt;&quot; /&gt;<br />
&lt;/p&gt;<br />
<br />
&lt;/form&gt;<br />
{[&*&]}&lt;/div&gt;<br />
&lt;?php } ?&gt;\";{[&*&]}[[/code]]

Now the PHP delivery of this code to front-end would be:

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If I spent a little time on that I’m sure I could figure out the code to make it usable as a shortcode. But, if someone would like to collaborate that would save a lot of time.

Also, if you think we should add LinkedIn, Google+, YouTube, MySpace etc support let me know.

Thanks, Bryan

bhadaway@gmail.com