Add a short code for adding GitHub Star and Fork buttons with counts to a HTMLText field.
- Ed Chipman (UndefinedOffset)
- SilverStripe CMS 3.x
- Download the module from here https://github.com/webbuilders-group/silverstripe-githubshortcode/archive/master.zip
- Extract the downloaded archive into your site root so that the destination folder is called githubshortcode, opening the extracted folder should contain _config.php in the root along with other files/folders
- Run dev/build?flush=all to regenerate the manifest
Usage is pretty straight forward to add GitHub buttons you simply add the following:
[github repo="repository owner/repository name"]
Optionally you may add layout="stacked" to use a stacked layout (defaults to inline). As well you may also optionally add button="stars" or button="forks" (defaults to both) to only show the star gazers or forks of the repository.
[github repo="repository owner/repository name" layout="stacked"]
[github repo="repository owner/repository name" layout="stacked" button="stars"]
In 3.1 the short codes above will work as included however the updated syntax for the short code would be (of course layout and button are not required):
[github,repo="repository owner/repository name",layout="stacked",button="stars"]
There are a few configuration options available to you:
GitHubShortCode:
CacheTime: 86400 #Cache time in seconds (default is 1 day, remember the GitHub api is rate limited)
UseBasicAuth: false #Use GitHub authentication or not
Username: "your username" #GitHub Username, required if using authentication
Password: "your password" #GitHub Password, required if using authentication
UseShortHandNumbers: true #Use short hand numbers i.e 5.6K or not