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/

[Bouncer222]

I don't use the default CMPS, but use vbadvanced, how to implement it with that?

[Jabong82]

What exactly does this do?

Is this for like search engine optimization?

[Dennis Kaczor]

Hello all, installed this and it seems to be working with the exception when you click on the Tag Cloud link it goes to a black page see below.

http://www.XXXXXXXXX.com/tags.php?ta...s+cherry+beach

This should be for my forum:
http://wwwXXXXXXXXX.com/forums/tags....s+cherry+beach.

What code would I need to change in order for this to work.

Thanks in advance

Dennis

[ngcoders]

Originally Posted by Dennis Kaczor

Hello all, installed this and it seems to be working with the exception when you click on the Tag Cloud link it goes to a black page see below.

http://www.XXXXXXXXX.com/tags.php?ta...s+cherry+beach

This should be for my forum:
http://wwwXXXXXXXXX.com/forums/tags....s+cherry+beach.

What code would I need to change in order for this to work.

Thanks in advance

Dennis

replace

$vbulletin->options['homeurl']

with

$vbulletin->options['homeurl'].'/forums/'

[Dennis Kaczor]

Originally Posted by ngcoders

replace

$vbulletin->options['homeurl']

with

$vbulletin->options['homeurl'].'/forums/'

This looks so simple, yet it does not seem to go to my forums. Is this correct with adding the forums in this area?

Here is the change

PHP Code:


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


I get this error message on the Home Screen, when I made the changes below

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING in /home/XXXXXXXXX/www/www/forums/packages/vbcms/widget/execphp.php(177) : eval()'d code on line 52

[Das UndergrounD]

as I do for version 3.8?

[DaanLT]

Only English chars, big minus. We need international chars support.

[sKippah]

Thanks for this, very nice one. Works fine.

[Selcor]

When I add the widget, shows the error:

Warning: array_values() [function.array-values]: The argument should be an array in [path]/packages/vbcms/widget/execphp.php(177) : eval()'d code on line 35

Warning: Wrong parameter count for max() in [path]/packages/vbcms/widget/execphp.php(177) : eval()'d code on line 35

Warning: array_values() [function.array-values]: The argument should be an array in [path]/packages/vbcms/widget/execphp.php(177) : eval()'d code on line 36

Warning: Wrong parameter count for min() in [path]/packages/vbcms/widget/execphp.php(177) : eval()'d code on line 36

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in [path]/packages/vbcms/widget/execphp.php(177) : eval()'d code on line 47

:s

[Dennis Kaczor]

Originally Posted by Dennis Kaczor

This looks so simple, yet it does not seem to go to my forums. Is this correct with adding the forums in this area?

Here is the change

PHP Code:


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


I get this error message on the Home Screen, when I made the changes below

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING in /home/XXXXXXXXX/www/www/forums/packages/vbcms/widget/execphp.php(177) : eval()'d code on line 52

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