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)

[marius25]

Hi

I want to delete the forumID from the URL when clicking on a tag.. How can I do this? I searched all tag cloud templates but can not find this "&forumID=" from the tag URL to delete it.

[Lynne]

Originally Posted by marius25

Hi

I want to delete the forumID from the URL when clicking on a tag.. How can I do this? I searched all tag cloud templates but can not find this "&forumID=" from the tag URL to delete it.

Undo the change to the tagbit template that you did in step 1.

[BadgerDog]

Originally Posted by BadgerDog

Also ...

We don't want the vbCMS Comments to show during the Tag Search ....

Someone gave us a variable replacement for the search for NEW posts that looks like this..

do=getnew&exclude=143,x,x,x where x = forum ID's

Would you know how we can use something similar for Tag Search, or alternatively, another method (or mod?) for turning OFF the output of any results for the vbCMS Comments forum?

Thanks for any guidance .. much appreciated ..

Regards,
Doug

Anyone able to help with this?

Thanks ..

Regards,
Doug

[Lynne]

Originally Posted by Lynne

On my default 4.1.2 test forum, clicking on a tag in the showthread page when that plugin is on or off, now seems to only show tags within that forum. That is not how it used to be. Just like if I click on advanced search while in a forum, the Search Tag Cloud on the bottom of the page only shows tags from the forum I was in. I'm not sure when this changed.

Originally Posted by BadgerDog

Anyone able to help with this?

Thanks ..

Regards,
Doug

Sorry, I take back what I wrote up there. I was queuing my search results while testing so the new test tags I was adding weren't showing up in the test. Testing right now, I see it does shows tags from all forums and it no longer takes the forumid as a variable to use in the tag search. So, the results of a click will get all the tags in any forum and I don't know how to limit that without actually modifying the code (function prepare_tagcloud in functions_search.php, if you want to do so).

[BadgerDog]

Originally Posted by Lynne

Sorry, I take back what I wrote up there. I was queuing my search results while testing so the new test tags I was adding weren't showing up in the test. Testing right now, I see it does shows tags from all forums and it no longer takes the forumid as a variable to use in the tag search. So, the results of a click will get all the tags in any forum and I don't know how to limit that without actually modifying the code (function prepare_tagcloud in functions_search.php, if you want to do so).

Thanks Lynne ...

Too bad it doesn't just show both the tags and then the search, staying within the SAME forum ...

That would save our research site users a lot of time ....

Appreciate your feedback ....

Regards,
Doug

[sweetguy2004]

I have a tag issue on my board when i try to open advance search page where the tag cloud is present it takes too much time to load that page & when i installed this mod now its happening same with forum display i have a big board please help me to solve this issue

Thanks

[gyancentral]

is it possible to make it animated

[d19rnyxx]

for some weird reason, manually inserting the tag cloud does not work for me, is there an issue with vb 4.1.4?

[archet1337]

Originally Posted by d19rnyxx

for some weird reason, manually inserting the tag cloud does not work for me, is there an issue with vb 4.1.4?

I just manually inserted the tag cloud on my 4.1.4 board.

Placed it after {vb:raw template_hook.forumdisplay_below_threadlist} in FORUMDISPLAY. (http://www.radioctrl.com/f4/)

Great mod!

[8thos]

Dumb question but what's the point of a tag cloud?