Topic: trying to write a plugin, need help.

[themystical]

Hi to everyone, I need some help from you guys, I know GaMerZ is very busy and therefore suggesting to write another plugin is far from happening at the moment (you're the best with your plugins btw). Because of that I decided to write a plugin myself, I can't find anything that would do what I need, let me explain first.

Lets say we have post that contains a picture and we would like to let viewers share it on their myspace or forum, you've seen it many times from image hosting websites, you upload a picture and you get different options like

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[IMG]http://www.site.com/8fwy3af.jpg[/IMG]
or
http://www.site.com/view.php?pic=8fwy3af&s=1So I was thinking that if a post has a picture inside a tag [shareit]image in here[/shareit] the plugin would grab the link, store it in a variable, we manually add a tag <--sharit--> anywhere inside that post and have the plugin output a div containing few fields with the image link properly formatted.

The problem is that I'm not quite a programmer  ha ha, I have some basic knowledge of php and I can spend hours reading about it and wordpress plugins stuff but I need quite some help  .


Speaking of php what I was able to accomplish so far, and is very little, is to get the image url in [shareit]image in here[/shareit] and store it in a variable formatted to [ IMG]image url[/IMG ] using preg_replace.
After that I can't think of the proper way to continue, I'd like to be pointed into the right direction.
BTW, if something like this is already been made for wordpress please share it.

Thanks in advance.

[Ttech]

Wow that would bee a lot of work.
You'd need to do some meta additions and have a new window for that share it
It would also have to check if the link exists...

[GaMerZ]

why not suggest this to the author of Share This? Alex King? I think this is a good feature.

[Ttech]

Doh! forgot about that. :/

[themystical]

Well, I made it 
I'm so proud of myself even though it's only few lines of code and most likely the functions could be written in a better and more efficient way, in this case shame on me but what the heck, I've never done it!!!
I admit it it's very limited, there's no administration page, there's no link check(yet), the template needs to be modified...
...anyway, so far it seems to work.

I'm gonna keep reading and learning, I'm having so much fun and maybe it could turn out into a "real" plugin to be share.

The result can be seen on my website www.hilariousgifs.com just click on any image, the red bar saying share it, if clicked, slides down, I should make it more obvious but the whole thing is still a work in progress.

[GaMerZ]

themystical: I can sense that you feel quite happy as it is a sense of achievement =D Greatest thing you have as a programmer. lol

[Ttech]

WD

[imvain2]

themyst:

Have you heard of Adbrite's BritePic? You can use it to make money off the photos you post plus it gives you the ability to add embed/link/email capabilities.