Add a short code for adding GitHub Star and Fork buttons with counts to a HTMLText field.

• Ed Chipman (UndefinedOffset)

• SilverStripe CMS 4.x | 5.x

• Run composer require webbuilders-group/silverstripe-githubshortcode dev-master in the project folder
• Run dev/build?flush=all to regenerate the manifest

Usage is pretty straight forward to add GitHub buttons you simply add the following:

    
        
            
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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.

    
        
            
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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):

    
        
            
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There are a few configuration options available to you:

WebbuildersGroup\GitHubShortCode\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