How to Create Social Stats Widget with jQuery,PHP and YQL

Tutorialzine has writen nice tutorial about how to create a simple widget, which combines the number of your RSS readers, twitter followers, and fans of  facebook fan page, to give a rough estimate of  social popularity.

social stats 600x308 How to Create Social Stats Widget with jQuery,PHP and YQL

They are using jQuery and the tipTip plugin, object-oriented PHP, and Yahoo’s YQL, while demonstrating a number of interesting web development techniques.

This is especially important here, as they are using Yahoo’s YQL for three very different tasks:

  • Fetch  RSS subscriber count with FeedBurner’s awareness API
  • Use twitter’s API to get  number of followers;
  • Use Facebook’s new Graph API (link) to get information about the number of fans of  facebook fanpage.

Requirements: JQuery framework, tip tip plugin,PHP,YQL
Demo: http://demo.tutorialzine.com/2010/05/showing-facebook-twitter-rss-stats-jquery-yql/demo.html
License: License free

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