vBulletin CMS Widgets - Animated Flash Tags Widget , Flash Tag Cloud

Flash Tag Cloud

Released 6/3/2010
By Vikas - http://www.ngcoders.com
Demo - http://www.roboticsindia.com , Look at left sidebar

Installation

• Goto Admincp->vBullietin CMS->Widgets->Create New Widget
• Choose PHP Direct Execution as Widget's Type
• Place a Title. eg Upcoming Events. Keep it short as this is what will appear as title on your pages.
• Click Save
• Click Configure on the right of the new created widget.
• Remove the default code that appears. Be sure to not leave behind even a single letter.
• Copy and Paste the code that you can find below.
• Leave the template name as is (vbcms_widget_execphp_page)
• Click Save
• Goto Admincp->vBullietin CMS->Layout Manager
• Click Go on the Default Layout
• Add the Widget to your Layout
• Click Save
• Download the attached tagcloud.zip and extract it.
• Upload tagcloud.swf to root directory of your vbulletin install
• That's all !!

PHP Code

PHP Code:


$flashWidth  = 330;
$flashHeight = 330;
$flashPath = 'tagcloud.swf';
$flashBackgroundColor = 'ffffff';
$tagCount = 30;
$tagMaxSize = 16;
$tagMinSize = 8;

// Colors are in hex
$data['tcolor'] = '0x000000';
$data['tcolor2'] = '0x336699';
$data['hicolor'] = '0x000000';
$data['speed'] = 100;
$data['distr'] = 'true';
$data['mode'] = 'tags';

$contentTypes = array(2=>'tags.php?tag=',15=>'blog.php?tag=');

/* No Editing Below This Line*/

global $vbulletin;

// %d

$query = sprintf("SELECT Tag.tagid, Tag.tagtext, TagContent.contenttypeid, COUNT( TagContent.tagid ) AS count FROM ".TABLE_PREFIX."tag AS Tag LEFT JOIN ".TABLE_PREFIX."tagcontent AS TagContent ON ( Tag.tagid = TagContent.tagid ) GROUP BY TagContent.tagid ORDER BY count DESC LIMIT %d",$tagCount);

$qtags = vB::$db->query_read($query);

while($tag = vB::$db->fetch_array($qtags)) {
    $tags[] = $tag;
    $tagSize[$tag['tagtext']] = $tag['count'];
}

// largest and smallest array values
$maxQty = max(array_values($tagSize));
$minQty = min(array_values($tagSize));

$spread = $maxQty - $minQty;
if ($spread == 0) {
        $spread = 1;
}

$step = ($tagMaxSize - $tagMinSize) / ($spread);

// make the tag cloud
$tagsHTML  = "";
foreach ($tags as $tag)
{
    $size = round($tagMinSize + (($tag['count'] - $minQty) * $step));
    $text = $tag['tagtext'];

    $url = $vbulletin->options['homeurl'].'/'.$contentTypes[$tag['contenttypeid']].urlencode($tag['tagtext']);
    $tagsHTML .= "<a href='$url' style='$size'>$text</a>";
}

$data['tagcloud'] = '<tags>'.$tagsHTML.'</tags>';

$flashVars = "";

foreach($data as $var=>$val)
{
    $flashVars .= (empty ($flashVars))?'':'&amp;';
    $flashVars .= "$var=".urlencode($val);
}

ob_start();
?>
<embed width="<?php echo $flashWidth;?>" height="<?php echo $flashHeight;?>" flashvars="<?php echo $flashVars;?>" wmode="transparent" allowscriptaccess="always" quality="high" bgcolor="#<?php echo $flashBackgroundColor;?>" name="vbCloudFlash" id="vbCloudFlash" style="" src="<?php echo $vbulletin->options['homeurl'].'/'.$flashPath;?>" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"/>
<?php

$content = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();

$output = $content;

It is based on WP-Cumulus , to change settings please refer to this page -

http://www.roytanck.com/2009/03/11/h...us-shortcodes/

[ecky]

Originally Posted by Dennis Kaczor

Never mind, found how to solve this....

I'm having exactly the same problem. Would you mind sharing your solution?

[Dennis Kaczor]

Originally Posted by ecky

I'm having exactly the same problem. Would you mind sharing your solution?

Sure can share this

['homeurl'].'/forums/''/'.$contentTypes[$tag

The above was what I was given to get this to work, but it gave me errors, so I changed this code to the following an it worked.

['homeurl'].'/forums/'.$contentTypes[$tag

It was that simple.

Dennis

[ecky]

Thanks Dennis. I had already tried this but still have an empty white widget on vb 4.0.2. Very nice mod if I could make this work. Uninstalled it for now.

[Doctor Death]

I too get an empty white widget box. Sure would like to see this work on my 4.0.2 install.

[alashram]

I think it doesn’t work with 4.0.2

[nkumaran]

Thank You.

[is_it_me]

Originally Posted by Doctor Death

I too get an empty white widget box. Sure would like to see this work on my 4.0.2 install.

Originally Posted by alashram

I think it doesn?t work with 4.0.2

I have it installed and working on 4.02 - see bottom left of the homepage on the link in my signature.

[ecky]

Originally Posted by is_it_me

I have it installed and working on 4.02 - see bottom left of the homepage on the link in my signature.

I stand corrected, it clearly does work on 402. It must be another mod conflicting and I also use the /forum/ subfolder. Would I have to clear the CMS cache every time I do a code edit to make this work?

[alashram]

Originally Posted by is_it_me

I have it installed and working on 4.02 - see bottom left of the homepage on the link in my signature.

I should mention that I don?t assign tags on CMS, I only promote articles directly from the forums which are tagged already but on CMS (Front page) they are not tagged I think I have to tag them again, perhaps that?s the reason why it didn?t work for me. Can this widget also list tags from the forums?

[woffie]

Looks nice. It would be cool if it worked.