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)

[vip_inc200]

thank you very much

[RobbieZ]

Originally Posted by Octavius.

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

I guess it depends on the board and how the members use tags.

example if you were to run a sports forum and you used tags on all your threads, 'football', 'rugby', 'tennis', 'cricket', 'running' etc etc

These tags would appear in the cloud, If I was only interested in football then I would click the tag and look at all threads with that tag steering me clear from tennis and cricket and so on..

[8thos]

Oh okay cool makes sense to me.

[Mauro79]

you could do the same for forumhome mod?
and the option to put in the footer?
thanks

[Taurus1]

Is it possible to edit the font size of this? I would like to increase this, but only for this.

Thanks Lynne!

[Lynne]

You can do that via CSS. Just preface them all with the id, like #forum_tags a.level1, #forum_tags a.level2 , etc.