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.

[tuor]

BTW, your site was extremely slow for me, you may want to fix that.

A bit OT, but I can confirm that your site was snailishly slow today, madteckhead.

[adam9110]

How to limit the numbers of the tags show?
I notice if not control the tags numbers , the web will get mass with thousand of tags together.

Kind Regards,

[AMC]

Im totally stumped with how to limit the number of tags that are displayed.
I would ideally like it to fit into a box roughly 200x200 px.

Can anyone help me ?!?

The mod came from http://www.madteckhead.com/blog/zentagcloud
and I read all the posts in the zen forum here :?

Thanks
Andreja

[madteckhead]

Hi All,
Sorry for the delay in getting back to this forum. Seems some of the messages were going to my junk mail... hmmm... Anyhow, I am currently preparing for some exams and will revise the project to address the issues raised as soon as time becomes available.

Initially I did't receive much interest in the contrib, so have not developed it further, however your interest may spur me on a little further. Thank you.

I would appreciate knowing if you have used this contrib on your site for my reference, and would be especially interested in any customiation you may have found to be beneficial.

Many thanks,

Nathan

p.s. Sorry about my slow site, thats what you get when you are on an over shared server.