SocialStats: Need Programmers Collaboration for Plugin

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

Download and test plugin from here:

bryanhadaway.com/testing/socialstats.zip

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

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

(with permission of it’s 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 (zip file above).

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:

<?php echo ss_feedburner; ?>
<?php echo ss_facebook; ?>
<?php echo ss_twitter; ?>

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

The second main part is the PHP delivery of this code to front-end:

<?php
$sum = ss_get_transient('rss') + ss_get_transient('facebook') + ss_get_transient('twitter');
echo $sum;
?>

Which gives us our plain text total number.

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 and Google+, maybe YouTube or support for other sites let me know.

Thanks, Bryan