Forum Display Enhancements - Tag Cloud on Forumdisplay

vbulletin 4 version




What does this product do?
It displays a tag cloud of all tags used within actual forums on top of FORUMDISPLAY. If a user clicks on tags, only threads within actual forums are displayed then.

How to install?
Just import product. Done.

Optional: To also only show threads within actual forums once a user clicks on a tag on showthread, change template tagbit to

<a href="tags.php?$session[sessionurl]tag=$tag_url<if condition="THIS_SCRIPT == 'showthread'">&forumid=$threadinfo[forumid]</if>">$tag</a>

How to uninstall?
Just deinstall product. Done.

How to change location of tag cloud box?

• Replace this code from manage plugins > plugin forumdisplay_start (Forum Tags)
  

  $vbulletin->templatecache['FORUMDISPLAY'] = str_replace('$navbar','$navbar'.fetch_template('tag_cloud_headinclude').'$cloud_html' .'<br />',$vbulletin->templatecache['FORUMDISPLAY']);

  with
  

  $vbulletin->templatecache['FORUMDISPLAY'] = str_replace('$navbar','$navbar'.fetch_template('tag_cloud_headinclude'),$vbulletin->templatecache['FORUMDISPLAY']);

• Put $cloud_html in FORUMDISPLAY style 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 automaticely placed below navbar template
• Tag links are altered to let tags be searchable by forum
• Tag.php has a new option forumid to only show tags from specific forums
• If you click on a tag, only topics within actual forum are displayed
• Tag size is dependent on how many threads are tagged only within actual forum
• Adds 1 query to forumdisplay

Version history

• 30.7.08 version 0.1
• 31.7.08 version 0.2 Templates are cached
• 24.8.08 version 0.3 Pagenav bug resolved
• 9.1.09 New description how to change location of tag cloud box (solved bug)

[caliman]

Anyone get this to work for 4.0?

[Lynne]

Originally Posted by caliman

Anyone get this to work for 4.0?

I have, but I had to modify it.

[caliman]

Was it hard Lynne? Care to share?

[Lynne]

I don't feel right sharing it without the developers permission. Has ThorstenA said whether he is going to port this to vb4? And no, I don't remember it being hard to convert.

[caliman]

I don't believe he has. I understand. Glad it was easy. I would think it would be as the DB stuff probably hasn't changed.

[Lynne]

Originally Posted by caliman

I don't believe he has. I understand. Glad it was easy. I would think it would be as the DB stuff probably hasn't changed.

Actually, if I recall correctly, the database stuff did change and so the query had to be modified (there is no longer a tagthread table).

[caliman]

WHoa. That is a bit more then.
Within my reach, but not something to rush. Thanks for the info.

[ThorstenA]

Originally Posted by Lynne

I don't feel right sharing it without the developers permission. Has ThorstenA said whether he is going to port this to vb4? And no, I don't remember it being hard to convert.

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

All my other mods are free to update them to vb4 and publish them from anyone, too.

[Lynne]

OK, Thorsten. I will put this together and release it since it is OK with you. Give me a day cuz I actually customized it a little for my own site and I want to take that out (I only do it for some forums and then don't use the default levels to give the tags colors on my site).

[caliman]

Thanks in advance Lynne! I and many here appreciate it. And thank you ThorstenA!!