Thursday 28th February 2008Tag Cloud v2
Please check out the demo page for examples on how to use the new functions available in this version.
Some of the new features included in the new tag cloud script are:
- Link and URL Assignment
- Additional attribute assignment e.g. title etc
- Add styles and colour options to each tag
- Set a limit to the amount of tags that are displayed
- Examples of intergrating with a MySQL Database
- Examples of intergrating with a Flat Text File
- String to cloud, parse a single string into a tag cloud instantly
- Ignore list, to remove particular words from the cloud. e.g. and, the, it, i
- Ordering by a selective field. e.g. word, size, colour
Tutorial coming soon ...
I can't wait! I love you tag system, and this sounds very good
Keep up the good work dude
February 28th, 2008 at 4:10 pm
hi, great class! In my case I modified showCloud function a bit.
This way I don't need to get array first and create links myself. This might be useful for other users?
February 28th, 2008 at 4:12 pm
I think your tutorial should also include the Rewrite Engine rule required to make the domain.dom/tag// link work
February 28th, 2008 at 4:15 pm
I had a problem with this code. I wanted to pass a load of strings into it then have it show the top 10 most popular strings. Perhaps i missed somthing.? isnt this the entire point of a TagCloud?
February 28th, 2008 at 4:15 pm
Good explane
March 10th, 2008 at 8:12 am
[...] Tag Cloud Script (Version 2) is now Available, with more customizable features [...]
March 16th, 2008 at 10:49 pm
There is a bug at the Limit:
$i = 1;
foreach ($this->wordsArray as $key => $value) {
if ($this->limitAmount < $i) {
$wordsArray[$value['word']] = $value;
}
$i++;
}
limitAmount $i
March 20th, 2008 at 6:25 pm
@Gabriel
When you parse a string into the tag cloud class, it converts the string to tags, you can order and limit the tags using specific methods in the class, these are shown in the tutorial.
@Arnaud
Good idea, although this isn't really something i can control as each site system will work differently.
@Bandorka
Thanks for the comment, could you please expand on this as it's very difficult for me to replicate the bug you are encountering! Looking at the code, it looks fine to me and i have tested the method and i seem to get the desired results ... ?
March 20th, 2008 at 10:08 pm
Good post!...
March 27th, 2008 at 12:52 pm
Nice class, great work
Found a bug though, and the fix I believe.
In the getMax()-method in wordcloud.class.php a "{" and a "}" is missing.
Before it was this:
...
row 306: if ($c_size > $p_size)
row 307: $max = $c_size;
row 308: $p_size = $c_size;
After my fix:
...
row 306: if ($c_size > $p_size) {
row 307: max= $c_size;
row 308: $p_size = $c_size;
row 309: }
You can see the bug in action on your demo-page actually. If you view that page and just hits F5 5-10 times you will see how your first Basic Example change appearance (the order), and some times the "weight" of the tags change too. That "randomness" in tag-weight is a bug in my oppinion.
March 30th, 2008 at 12:40 pm
Indeed it was a minor bug, thank you for mentioning this it is now fixed
and it works a little smoother and consistent when the page is reloaded.
As each item was looped through only two items were compared in size, now we store the largest item in size and then compare it to each item as it loops through the array.
Thanks again!
March 30th, 2008 at 4:53 pm
Hi. I tried to limit the number of words.
For exemple the top 10 words of a text.
How to do ?
April 10th, 2008 at 11:04 am
Hi,
I was wondering how I would go about using an RSS feed as the data source for your cloud script?
Any help you could provide would be greatly appreciated.
All the best.
April 22nd, 2008 at 3:21 pm
Hi,
Thank you for your script!
Could You show me an example what is about W/Links & colours MySQL Database?
If there are three fileds of word, link, color.
Thank you!
May 13th, 2008 at 9:32 pm