The CakeSocial plugin for CakePHP allows for simple integration of social media into your CakePHP application.
- ShareThis for social link sharing and publicising. (Includes 44 social networks, including: Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, Slashdot, Reddit, and more)
This plugin is built for CakePHP 1.3 and above.
Upgrade from CakePHP 1.2 to CakePHP 1.3 takes about 5 minutes, checkout the awesome migration guide.
If you downloaded a tar.gz, tar.bz2 or zip file, extract the contents of the archive to your applications /plugins directory.
The result will be a cake_social directory under your plugins directory.
Navigate to the root of your application, and add the CakeSocial plugin as a submodule with the following git command:
git submodule add http://github.com/predominant/cake_social.git plugins/cake_social
git submodule init
git submodule update
The simplest method of usage is to include each helper you want to use on your AppController class.
If you do not have one already, create the file app_controller.php in the root of your application, and add the following:
<?php
App::import('Helper', 'CakeSocial.ShareThis');
class AppController extends Controller {
public $helpers = array(
'CakeSocial.ShareThis' => array(
'publisher' => 'my-publisher-id',
),
'Session'
);
}
Now you can just display the widget on any page with the following CakePHP view code:
echo $this->ShareThis->display();
Simple!
Note: The ShareThis helper doesn't require the Session helper, its just included to show that other helpers go in there also, and to help copy+paste help vampires who after migrating to CakePHP 1.3, will get SessionHelper errors if they don't include it.
I'd be more than thrilled to hear anyones experiences with this CakeSocial plugin.
If you have suggestions, enhancement requests, or bugs, please let me know.