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Show Gameball Player Widget
Get started on integrating the Gameball players's profile into your website or web app
Gameball widget is a customized loyalty interface your customers see when they are on your platform. The widget is where they can learn more about the loyalty program, track their progress, find their referral URL, and find other loyalty profile information. Learn more about Gameball widget.
To show the Gameball widget on your website or web application, you need to add the widget javascript code snippet to every webpage where you want the widget to appear. Paste the code snippet immediately before the closing tag. If you use templates to dynamically generate pages for your site, like PHP, ASP, or similar technology, you can paste the code snippet into its file, then include it in your page header.
<script>
window.GbLoadInit = function(){
GbSdk.init({
APIKey: '{{Your_API_Key}}',
lang: 'en',
playerUniqueId: '',
playerAttributes:{}
});
};
</script>
<script defer src="https://assets.gameball.co/widget/js/gameball-init.min.js"></script>
The widget supports two different modes, a guest view, and a player view. Each can be shown to your website visitors with the same code snippet and serve different use cases.
A guest view is normally what you want your guests (non-logged-in users) to see about the programs you're offering. This can encourage guests to create accounts and sign in to enjoy your rewards programs. Where a player view is used to let your players (logged-in users) track their programs in your rewards program and enjoy their benefits.
For guest customers, and non-logged-in users, use the below snippet to add your Gameball APIKey. Please check the article How can you get your account integration details? (API Key & Transaction Key) to learn more on how to get your unique APIKey.
<script>
window.GbLoadInit = function(){
GbSdk.init({
APIKey: '{{Your_API_Key}}',
lang: 'en',
playerUniqueId: '',
playerAttributes:{}
});
};
</script>
<script defer src="https://assets.gameball.co/widget/js/gameball-init.min.js"></script>
For player view, all you need to do is to set the
playerUniqueId value to the currently logged-in user. This is how your player will be identified and tracked at Gameball, hence make sure to send a permanent consistent id across a user’s lifetime. It could be a database ID, random string, email, or anything that uniquely identifies the player.In addition to the
playerUniqueId, optional player attributes can be sent to enrich the player's profile at Gameball. You can send non, all, or selected attributes to Gameball depending on how you would like to enrich your player's profile.Every time the widget is initialized with player data, the player profile is created or updated on Gameball side. You may consider enriching your Gameball's player profile with attributes that are not available to the UI by using the server-side Create\Update Player API
<script>
window.GbLoadInit = function(){
GbSdk.init({
APIKey: '{{Your_API_Key}}',
lang: 'en',
playerUniqueId: '{{logged_in_player_unique_id}}',
playerAttributes: {
displayName: 'john austin',
email: '[email protected]',
custom:
{
'height': '1.8'
}
},
});
};
</script>
<script defer src="https://assets.gameball.co/widget/js/gameball-init.min.js"></script>
Choose an Unchangeable Player Unique ID
Gameball user profile gets created using the
playerUniqueId. It is highly recommended to have the unique ID as an identifier that would NEVER be changed. If this unique ID changes for a given player, you risk losing all original data for that player and hence losing their points and rewards on Gameball. Accordingly, it is NOT recommended to use the email address or the mobile number as the unique ID as both can be changed by the user at any time.
Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
APIKey | string | Yes | Client API key |
lang | string | Yes | Your platform language preference to view Gameball Widget with. Note: The language provided should be as per configured languages in your account. If not provided the Gameball profile widget will be shown with your account default language Example: "en", "fr". |
playerUniqueId | string | Yes | Unique identifier for the player in your database. Could be database ID, random string, email or anything that uniquely identifies the player. |
playerAttributes | object | No |
Parameter | Type | Description |
displayName | string | Player's display name |
firstName | string | Player's first name |
lastName | string | Player's last name |
gender | string | Player's gender. Example: M or F, Male or Female. |
email | string | Player's email |
dateOfBirth | string | Player's date of birth Example: "1980-09-19T00:00:00.000Z" |
joinDate | string | Player join date at your system. Example: "2019-09-19T21:06:29.158Z" |
tags | string | Comma separated string of tags to be attached to the player. Example: "VIP,Platinum" |
community | string | Describe which community a player belongs to. Example: ? |
custom | object | Key value pairs of any extra player attributes. {"class" : "E2022", "weight" : 78} |
For websites with multiple languages, how you can change Gameball widget language based on active website language. Gameball supports multiple languages for the player profile widget. The widget language can be changed based on your player's (customer) active language on the website.
Language | Code |
Arabic | ar |
Dutch | nl |
English | en |
French | fr |
German or Deutsch | de |
Hungarian | hu |
Italian | it |
Portuguese | pt |
Spanish | es |
Swedish | sv |
Taiwanese Mandarin | zh-TW |
In order to show the correct language of the widget based on the active language on the website, you just need to use the language code inside the
lang variable in the code snippet.
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