[nico_swd]

I edited your code for testing purposes, and it seems to be working for me this way. So if $entry['tags'] really holds the expected content, it should work.

PHP Code:

<?php

// $entry = $db->query_first("SELECT tags FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "journal_entries WHERE journal_id=1");
$entry['tags'] = 'test, one, two, three four, five';

if ($entry['tags'])
{
    $kwords = explode(',', trim(stripslashes($entry['tags'])));
    $entry['tags'] = array();

    foreach ($kwords AS $keyword)
    {    
        $keyword = trim($keyword);
        $entry['tags'][] = '<a href="/journal.php?' . $vbulletin->session->vars['sessionurl'] . 'do=showjournal&amp;tag='.$keyword.'&amp;j='.$j.'" target="_top">' .$keyword. '</a>';
    }

    $entry['tags'] = implode(', ', $entry['tags']);
    echo $entry['tags'];
}

// eval('print_output("' . fetch_template('journal_blogcloud') . '");');
// $db->free_result($entry);