Register A Widget

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/* Follow Me Widget */

class dg_followWidget extends WP_Widget {
    /** constructor */
    function dg_followWidget() {
        $followwidget_ops = array( 'classname' => 'widget_text', 'description' => __('Link to your twitter page for viewers to follow you.'));
        $control_ops = array('width' => 200);
        parent::WP_Widget(false, $name = 'Follow Me', $followwidget_ops, $control_ops);
    }

    /** @see WP_Widget::widget */
    function widget($args, $instance) {
        extract( $args );
        $title = apply_filters('widget_title', $instance['title']);
        $username = apply_filters('widget_text', $instance['username']);
        ?>
        <li id="follow-me" class="widget-container">
        <?php if ( $title ) echo $before_title . $title . $after_title; ?>

        <?php if ( $title ) ?>
        <div class="follow-username">
        <span class="twit-icon" style="margin-right: 5px;">
            <img src="http://twitter-badges.s3.amazonaws.com/t_mini-b.png" height="15px" width="15px"/>
        </span>
            <a href="http://www.twitter.com/#!/<?php echo $username; ?>" target="_blank"><?php echo $username; ?></a>
        </div>

        </li>


 <?php

     }

    /** @see WP_Widget::update */
    function update($new_instance, $old_instance) {
        $instance = $old_instance;
        $instance['title'] = strip_tags($new_instance['title']);
        $instance['username'] = strip_tags($new_instance['username']);
        return $instance;
    }

    /** @see WP_Widget::form */
    function form($instance) {
        $title = esc_attr($instance['title']);
        $username = esc_attr($instance['username']);
        ?>

            <label for="<?php echo $this->get_field_id('title'); ?>"><?php _e('Title:'); ?></label>
            <br/>
            <input class="widefat" id="<?php echo $this->get_field_id('title'); ?>" name="<?php echo $this->get_field_name('title'); ?>" type="text" value="<?php echo $title; ?>" />
            <br/>
            <br/>
        <label for="<?php echo $this->get_field_id('username'); ?>"><?php _e('Username:'); ?></label>
        <br/>
        <input class="code widefat" id="<?php echo $this->get_field_id('username'); ?>" name="<?php echo $this->get_field_name('username'); ?>" type="text" value="<?php echo $username; ?>" />
        <span class="description">without @</span>


        <?php
    }

} // class quoteWidget
// register quoteWidget widget
add_action('widgets_init', create_function('', 'return register_widget("dg_followWidget");'));

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