Integration with GitHub Gists

[wycks]

Very cool, I just found this and I started to hack up an idea where it can get a list of Gists (by user or starred) and then fetch the Gist snippet.

I was wondering if this would be a good idea to integrate into this plugin or if you're interested.

[sheabunge]

Very cool! You can fork this repo and send a pull request. I'll review your code, perhaps modify it a bit, and then merge it into the core plugin files.

One thing, Gists usually start with an opening <?php and close with ?>, which is not allowed with Code Snippets.

[wycks]

It's ends up being a little more complex then I though since GitHub now requires Authorization for requests since anonymous ones are severely limited, also the output would need to be parsed, I'll play around with it.

[sheabunge]

Actually, since this seems like a rather large addition, and it would involve external requests, how about making this a separate plugin? Code Snippets includes lots of hooks and functions, and I could always add more if needed. I would be happy to open up a shared repo and we can work on this together, if that sounds good to you.

[sheabunge]

I've created a repo at https://github.com/bungeshea/code-snippets-gist. If you can dump your code in there, once you've finished fiddling around with it, and I'll take a look at it.

[wycks]

I'm really busy so not sure when I will get around to it, but I agree there are some issues with requesting info from an external API that might make it better if it stayed in a fork since all sorts of things can go wrong, it will end up being pretty sizable. During coding I ran into a limit request so I have to figure out how to deal with that, also parsing could be tricky and I kinda want it to work with via ajax.

Thanks for repo I''ll dump some code in there as I go

[sheabunge]

I was not suggesting a fork - that would create many frustrations with naming colisions and duplicate code. Rather, you could create a completely new plugin, and use the public functions avaliable in the $code_snippets global variable. For example, to add a Gist to the database, you could use the $code_snippets->save_snippet(); function. I'm working on documenting this on the wiki.

[sheabunge]

Any updates on this @wycks?

[wycks]

No sorry , I did have a working version but it did not use GitHub's Authentication API for requests so I want to rewrite it, but I'm just too busy.

[sheabunge]

That's fine. If you ever decide to rewrite it, I'll happy to help with the integration with the main plugin.

[levikszabo]

I would love to see this happening guys! please add gist/github integration!