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/

[kyle]

yes it is a great looking and usfull hack. any updates on this working?

[kyle]

anyopne know if theirs any other Tag Cloud hacks we could use for side bar?

[jpwilliams]

I'm having a problem with broken links in my tag cloud. The weird thing is, one link in the cloud works perfectly, but the rest are broken.

My site is www.blickees.com. If you click on the "donovan mcnabb" tag it goes to:

http://www.blickees.com/tags.php?tag=donovan+mcnabb

However every other tag goes to:

http://www.blickees.com/<tag>

Any ideas?

[jpwilliams]

Originally Posted by jpwilliams

I'm having a problem with broken links in my tag cloud. The weird thing is, one link in the cloud works perfectly, but the rest are broken.

My site is www.blickees.com. If you click on the "donovan mcnabb" tag it goes to:

http://www.blickees.com/tags.php?tag=donovan+mcnabb

However every other tag goes to:

http://www.blickees.com/<tag>

Any ideas?

Fixed this problem by changing:

$url = $vbulletin->options['homeurl'].'/'.$contentTypes[$tag['contenttypeid']].urlencode($tag['tagtext']);

TO:

$url = $vbulletin->options['homeurl'].'/'.'tags.php?tag='.urlencode($tag['tagtext']);

[kyle]

Originally Posted by 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

I am getting the same error, where could be the problem? Can you help me resolve this? my vb version is 4.0.2

[Antiblank]

Works just fine out of the box on 4.0.2

Thanks for the work.

[Kingdombuilder]

Did not work on my 4.0.2 either, I use tags on the forum and on the CMS page. Noting showed up in the widget accept the date.

[Bob_R]

Will check this out later. Looks cool. :up:

[Bob_R]

What else needs to be done to ensure it shows on the forums and not on the CMS? Do you still have to create the widget as if it'll be a CMS widget?

Here's my error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING in /home/xxxxxxxxx/public_html/talkclassicrock.com/forums/packages/vbcms/widget/execphp.php(177) : eval()'d code on line 3

[Bob_R]

Listed below are the instructions given for this mod to work on your CMS page.

What must one do differently as per the instructions to get it as a forum sidebar?

Thanks!!

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 !!