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)

[Quantnet]

The tag cloud is no longer in alphabetical order after i moved to 3.8 beta 3.
It's now ordered with the most tagged words first.

[ThorstenA]

Originally Posted by Quantnet.org

The tag cloud is no longer in alphabetical order after i moved to 3.8 beta 3.
It's now ordered with the most tagged words first.

This is an official bug of beta 3. It will be okay with beta 4.

[pipin]

Very nice Mod, just was I searched.

[pipin]

This messes up the forumdisplay of GARS.

Any chance, that it can activated only for certain forums or styles?

[ThorstenA]

Originally Posted by pipin

This messes up the forumdisplay of GARS.

Any chance, that it can activated only for certain forums or styles?

Please first just try to put tag cloud where you want it manually. This way your problem with GARS could be solved.

How to change location of tag cloud box?

• Delete 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']);

• Put $cloud_html in FORUMDISPLAY style to show tag cloud.

[pipin]

Originally Posted by ThorstenA

Please first just try to put tag cloud where you want it manually. This way your problem with GARS could be solved.

I tried that, too. But it didnt solve the problem.

[ThorstenA]

Originally Posted by pipin

I tried that, too. But it didnt solve the problem.

You can use this conditional:

 <if condition="$bbuserinfo[styleid]=xxx">$tag_cloud</if>

[pipin]

Originally Posted by ThorstenA

You can use this conditional:

 <if condition="$bbuserinfo[styleid]=xxx">$tag_cloud</if>

No. Thats not the problem.

GARS uses a different template GARS_forumdisplay, but after installing Tag Cloud on Forumdisplay the normal Forumdisplay template is used in the GARS forums.

[ThorstenA]

I am sorry I can not help you further with GARS. Please just ask them how to get support.

[pipin]

Originally Posted by ThorstenA

I am sorry I can not help you further with GARS. Please just ask them how to get support.

Solved it by myself.

The plug-in for the hook forumdisplay_start has execution order of "2" and the plug-in for gars which kicks in on the same hook has "5".

Changed 2 to 6 and all was fine.