Forum Display Enhancements - Tag Cloud on Forumdisplay

This mod was originally written by ThorstenA. The original thread is here.

I have permission to release this upgraded version of the mod from the author here:

Originally Posted by ThorstenA

I'd be very glad if you would publish your changed mod in the vb 4 section. (I wrote that this mod is completely free already here). I am not interested in being named as the author, having the functionality - so that it works with vb4 - is far more important to me

What does this product do?
It displays a tag cloud of all tags used within actual forums on top of FORUMDISPLAY.



How to install?
Just import product. Done.

How to uninstall?
Just deinstall product. If you did either template edit below, then undo the template edit.


Optional: To also only show threads within actual forums once a user clicks on a tag on showthread: (removed since not possible in 4.x).


How to change location of tag cloud box?

1) Find this code from manage plugins > plugin forumdisplay_start (Forum Tags)

PHP Code:

    $find = '<div id="above_threadlist" class="above_threadlist">';
    $vbulletin->templatecache['FORUMDISPLAY'] = str_replace($find,$cloud_html.$find,$vbulletin->templatecache['FORUMDISPLAY']); 


and replace with this code:

PHP Code:

    vB_Template::preRegister('FORUMDISPLAY', array('cloud_html' => $cloud_html)); 


2) Put {vb:raw cloud_html} in FORUMDISPLAY where you want to show tag cloud.


Details

* no options available yet
* uses standard tag options made in admincp > tags
* Does not add phrases, templates.
* It uses standard tag cloud template, but shows it on FORUMDISPLAY
* Tag cloud is only shown in actual forum when tags were used
* threads tagged within subforums are not shown
* Tag cloud is automatically placed above the threadlist
* Tag links are altered to let tags be searchable by forum (not possible in 4.x)
* Tags.php has a new option forumid to only show tags from specific forums (not possible in 4.x)
* If you click on a tag, only topics within actual forum are displayed (not possible in 4.x)
* Tag size is dependent on how many threads are tagged only within actual forum
* Adds 1 query to forumdisplay

Version history

2009-12-04 - version 0.4 - First release that works with vB4 by Lynne (pre 4.0.1)
2010-01-26 - version 0.5 - Fixed problem with tags having single apostophes in them. Created a new template to display the tag cloud at the top of forumdisplay (looks the same as bottom templates and will collapse). Fixed issue where css is stored as a file. (4.0.1)
2010-10-22 - version 0.6 - Modified template due to changes in 4.0.8 (4.0.8)

[Zaiaku]

Great work as always.

[Dr.osamA]

installed

thanxxxx man
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[ThorstenA]

Many thanks for releasing!

[Lynne]

Originally Posted by ThorstenA

Many thanks for releasing!

I glad you gave permission to upgrade this. I love this mod and am glad to have users continue to use it on their upgraded boards.

[VonDoom]

haha now i know that im not messing up template edits. my forum just doesnt seem to want to take anything considered "addon"

[Lynne]

Originally Posted by VonDoom

haha now i know that im not messing up template edits. my forum just doesnt seem to want to take anything considered "addon"

Are you installing them correctly? Are you getting errors when you try to install them? Are they showing up in the Product Manager list? Adn they are shown as Active there (no line through them)?

[VonDoom]

Can you install a plugin wrong?

Im sure im doing everything right. its just my live forum, my test board installs plugins fine, and also takes my template edits without issue. Something buggy about that particular board.

lol if you ever saw my primary forum youd know i have tons and tons of expierance installing plugins and making template edits.

[Lynne]

Originally Posted by VonDoom

Can you install a plugin wrong?

Im sure im doing everything right. its just my live forum, my test board installs plugins fine, and also takes my template edits without issue. Something buggy about that particular board.

lol if you ever saw my primary forum youd know i have tons and tons of expierance installing plugins and making template edits.

I can never remember how experienced everyone is. And yes, I have known of people to install plugins wrong! They will try to install a plugin in the product page or as a style (!?!) or install a product from the plugin page or style page, or think you just ftp the file to somewhere on the server, or.... believe me, I've seen users do all sorts of things 'wrong' when trying to install a product or plugin!

Very weird that your live site won't take (any?) plugins. Are you getting anything in your error_logs?

[VonDoom]

Sorry Lynne i didn't intentionally try to come off as difficult. no biggie really was just commenting that i was happy it wasn't my ability's and something with the forum. its brand new and i have nothing to lose if i have to start from scratch. And i guess i was exaggerating. it takes some hacks and doesn't want to show others. no errors they just simply dont show. If its a plugin. and if its a template edit it will whack out whatever template im editing. its always a 50/50 gamble on that particular board. hmmm havent looked at the logs. but its still w3c compliant.