ZenTagCloud Beta [support]

[madteckhead]

ZenTagCloud Beta Available Today

I’m pleased to announce that ZenTagCloud Beta (v0.2) is now available for trailing.

Available Here

Current Features Include:

• Category tag link to you Zen Cart category pages.
• Product meta keyword tags link to a search for the tag in question.
• Displays tags from product meta keywords.
• Displays tag sizes with either random weights OR custom weights OR proportional to the number of times the tag appears.
• Uses CSS for formatting.

This is my first Open Source project so I appreciate your feedback and suggestions.

Available Here


NOTE: This thread is not the support thread. Please see the link above.

[TheOracle]

Looks interesting. Althought, 2 things I noticed:

1 - The template CSS override file shows up as binary rather than text mode. This could create complications.

2 - Are there any screenshots ?

[Kim]

Please add your contribution to the Downloads section. Thanks.

[madteckhead]

Hi Ken & TheOracle,

Thanks for your interest. Sorry for the delay, but you can now find a screen shot of the tag cloud along with a link to the live site where it is implemented (if somewhat roughly) on my beautiful web log.

TheOracle, I was a little lost about your CSS comment. When I view the css file all seem like text. Could you please elaborate.

I would love to hear some suggestions for further developments to assist me in setting priorities.

Cheers,

Nathan

[tuor]

Hi Nathan,

I have been fooling around with your tag cloud addition to Zen-Cart and have some recommendations for the HTML/CSS output:

--- zentagcloud.php ---

1. I'd get rid of the   entities on line 156 and add padding to the elements via CSS instead
2. For some unknown reason I get an empty link right at the beginning. I inserted a quick fix to prevent this from happening on line 154:

   if ($returnType == "html" & $value['tag'] != "") 

3. As the Wikipedia definition says, a Tag Cloud is a weighted list. So I recommend using the HTML unordered-list element for output on lines 156 & 159.

The changes I described are included in the attachment as an example, feel free to use them if you want.

Thank you for the funky contribution! Nicolas

[yellow1912]

Nice mod, I don't think I'll use it tho. BTW, your site was extremely slow for me, you may want to fix that.

[lieven23]

Hy everyone
I've uploaded the includes folder, as fare no problems . But ten I
"Copy the code from 'ztc_pagecode.php' to one of the Defined Pages using: Tools -> Defined Pages Editor -> page_4.php"

Since then , my site went ofline

my site: www.afro-masks.com

Maybe I also overrided the tpl_index_default.php page

How can I restore these?

thx in advance

[lieven23]

my admin login also tells me:

Warning: error_log(/home/a8033afr/public_html/cache/page_parse_time.log) [function.error-log]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/a8033afr/public_html/admin/includes/classes/logger.php on line 60
Parse Time: 0.718s

my site: www.afro-masks.com

[lieven23]

Sorry my last post didn't had anything to do with zentagcloud, but thispost does.
I get a blank page and this is the error the error debug utility says:
[18-Aug-2009 01:14:01] PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_CLASS in /home/a8033afr/public_html/includes/classes/zentagcloud.php on line 10

My problem is, there is nothing on line 10 :-(




<?php
/*
@ZenWordCloud
Author:
- Nathan Keilar (www.madteckhead.com)

Version 0.1;

The is the project page for the ZenTagCloud. Its in development right now, its open source and I'd love input / contributions.
LINE 10 GOES HERE....????????????????????????
Note: the current version is not recommended for live online stores (where you have something to loose), however by all means try it out on you test site, have a look at the code and give me feedback.

p.s. Don't hold me responsible if something breaks.

What is a Tag Cloud?

A tag cloud (or weighted list in visual design) can be used as a visual depiction of content tags used on a website. Often, more frequently used tags are depicted in a larger font or otherwise emphasized, while the displayed order is generally alphabetical. Thus both finding a tag by alphabet and by popularity is possible. Selecting a single tag within a tag cloud will generally lead to a collection of items that are associated with that tag.

Features:
2/June/07: Displays category titles with random weights
3/June/07: Tags links to you Zen Cart site category pages.

Install:

1. Copy the code from this file to one of the Defined Pages using: Tools > Defined Pages Editor.

2. Ensure that the Defined Pages module is enables under: Tools > Layout Box Controller

3. Visit your site, and go to the defined page you pasted the code into. You should see a list of your sites categorie, with random sizes assigned to each one.

Todo/Wishlist:
- Save weights to database
- Add code to ?category's page? so that visits to category's changes weights
- Incorporate some noise in the category's weights to enable new category's a fair chance.
- Option to read tags from meta data
- Option to weight tags my relevance to current tag. (If you like a, you might like b type of thing)

With some code from:
- Derek Harvey (www.derekharvey.co.uk)
- Zen Cart Team (www.zen-cart.com)


Security Note: I've copied and modified a zen cart function to retrieve data from the db, and I think that by leaving the function embeded with the code if may pose some security risk. I'm open to advice on where to put it for best security practice.

*/

class wordCloud
{
var $gtags = array(); // tags array

/*
* PHP 5 Constructor
*
* @param array $words
* @return void
*/

function __construct($newtags = false)
{
if ($newtags !== false && is_array($newtags))
{
foreach ($newtags as $key => $value)
{
$this->addTag($value[0],$value[1],$value[2]);
}
}
}

[lieven23]

I suspect the error should be somewhere here ,but where?

/*
* PHP 5 Constructor
*
* @param array $words
* @return void
*/

function __construct($newtags = false)
{
if ($newtags !== false && is_array($newtags))
{
foreach ($newtags as $key => $value)
{
$this->addTag($value[0],$value[1],$value[2]);
}
}
}