What Is It?
Popup Politicians is an Javascript-based widget that adds mini-profiles with links of Members of Congress to your page that appear when you mouseover the link.
Example
Representative Robert ADERHOLT
Rep. Edwin (Ed) Perlmutter
Project Status
Launched 07.19.2006. Significantly revised 09.10.2006 and 12.1.2006.
How It Works
When the script runs, it finds politicians names in your web page and
adds a popup. The script runs after the page loads and contacts a remote web service
on Sunlight Labs servers to retrieve information about the politician.
What name do I use?
Not sure what name to use in your content in order for him or her to get tagged?
Additionally, names will be recognized based on a title and last name, if and only if that name is unambiguous. That is, there is only one representative with last name "Case" so Rep. Case will be tagged but there are 5 Millers and so Rep. Miller is ambiguous and will not be tagged: one must use the official name such as Rep. Brad Miller. If one uses the official name provided from the lookup feature above one can be assured that it will provide the correct popup information
Note that names will not be tagged if a name is split across a line. Thus, Sen. Artur
Davis will not be tagged but Rep. Artur Davis is fine when all on a single line. We hope to correct this in the next release.
How To Use / Install
Step 1: Add the Script Link to Your Web Page, in the <HEAD> section:
<script src="http://sunlightlabs.com/widgets/sunlightlinks_autopop.js"></script>
Step 2: Add Politicians to Your Web Page:
Just add the proper prefix (e.g., "Rep.", "Representative", "Sen.", "Senator") to a politicians name in the text of your pages. The first occurance of a politician receives a sun link and popup bubble. Examples: Rep. George Miller and Representative Gwendolynne S. Moore.
Upgrading from Previous Versions
If you previously installed the first, manual Popup Politician on your Website, you will fine this version signficantly easier to use. First, replace the the previousy script with the above indicated link. Second, remove any previously added "rel" tags from your website and leave just the politician's name.
Example: Replace <a href="http://sunlightlabs.com/tag/Sen.+Trent.+Lott" rel="tag"> Sen. Trent Lott</a> with
Sen. Chester Trent Lott.
If you were using the first autotagging script, you will find this version far more sophisticated and robust. Simply use the script indicated above.
Keeping Up-to-date
The SunlightLabs plans to support popuppoliticians for the forseeable future. We can let you know when the popups is updated by filling out the simple form below. The information will be used only to inform you about developments in the popups. It will not be shared with anyone else or used for any other purpose.
Primary Developer(s)
Duncan Werner, Natalia Blokhina, Carl Anderson
Developer Notes
The Code is Open-sourced
We are open sourcing all the js, html and php code for the popups, as well the mysql database itself. The code is being made available under an Apache-2 license. Now you are free to develop PopUp Physicists, Popup Photographers or what ever PopUps your heart desires.
Get the code from https://svn.sunlightlabs.com/public/.
The zip file contains all the js, html and php code but not the SQL file. This link allows one to browse the individual files of that zip.