Simple Gigya

A simple javascript file to include social sharing buttons via a single container element in HTML

Requirements:

This script will handle the fetching of the gigya code, but expects to find jQuery on your page. It won't complain if not found, just fail silently after polling for a while.

Building the JS:

Gigya requires an API key, and this implementation assumes you want to host your own sharing icons at a specified location, "#{settings.ICON_BASE_URL}/#{size}/#{service_name}.png".

The output of the build process will be a script configured for both of those variables, as supplied in settings.coffee.

1. Make sure you have Node.js and NPM
2. Check this repo out to a local working copy
3. Run npm install from within that folder
4. Run cp settings.coffee.example settings.coffee (and fill out the 2 variables)
5. Run cake build

Usage:

<div class="share-buttons"
     data-gigya="auto"
     data-services="twitter, twitter-tweet, facebook, reddit"
     data-options="linkBack=http%3A%2F%2Fsunlightfoundation.com&amp;title=The%20Sunlight%20Foundation"
     data-twitter-tweet-options="defaultText=Check%20out%20Sunlight's%20new%20social%20media%20buttons!&amp;countURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sunlightfoundation.com">
</div>
...
<script src="http://path/to/scripts/gigya.min.js"></script>

That's It!

Put the .js or .min.js file on your server and include as in the example above.

You can also manually trigger (or re-trigger) button rendering by:

• Setting data-gigya to something other than 'auto'
• Sending an event with data-gigya's value to the element