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)

[ThorstenA]

Originally Posted by vbboarder

Suggestion: you may want to change the title of this thread to something more descriptive so people can more easily discover this useful mod - something like "Exclude Forums from Tag Cloud" would help

Thanks for your suggestion. I am open to change the name of this mod. In fact, this modification

• displays a tagcloud on top of FORUMDISPLAY,
• only includes tags used within actual forum, while clicking on tags
• only show threads within actual forum.

It would be great to underline this by a new name.

[vbboarder]

I have 2 feature requests:

1. Provide an option to allow tags in subforums to be included

2. Provide an option to allow this mod to work in showthread.php

Thanks for this great mod!

[ThorstenA]

Originally Posted by vbboarder

Suggestion: you may want to change the title of this thread to something more descriptive so people can more easily discover this useful mod - something like "Exclude Forums from Tag Cloud" would help

Changed product name from Forum Tags to Tag Cloud on Forumdisplay.

[ThorstenA]

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

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

[ThorstenA]

New version 0.3 Pagenav bug resolved.

Upgrading recommended.

If your tag results go for more than one page, a page navigation is displayed (page 1,2,3 ... last page). This page navigation was not remembering actual forum. I fixed this.

[salava]

I have just update, but the info still says version 0.2. It is not changed in the new xml file.
BTW: Thanks, it is very useful mod for me.

[ThorstenA]

Originally Posted by salava

I have just update, but the info still says version 0.2. It is not changed in the new xml file.

Thanks for reporting. It was 0.3, just version number was showing 0.2. I fixed this now.

[AdrianH]

Installed and nomimated,thanks.:up:

[Fırtına]

How to tag cloud location bellow forum display?

[stonner]

Hi,

on our site it doesnt show the tags in a frame.

How can I solve this?

Thank you