Animated Flash Tags Widget , Flash Tag Cloud

Animated Flash Tags Widget , Flash Tag Cloud

Mod Version: 1.00, by ngcoders

vB Version: 4.0.x	Rating: (19 votes - 4.74 average)	Installs: 187
Released: 06 Mar 2010	Last Update: Never	Downloads: 1206
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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/how-to-use-wp-cumulus-shortcodes/

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