Weekly tags to the sidebar

[Andtony]

A while ago I modified my sidebar's tag cloud to show only tags from last seven days. This way the users see tags that are currently popular, and more up-date than the most popular tags.

If someone wants to do the same here's how I did it. I used code snippets from the tags.php file but if someone has more simplified way to do this please let me know.

Step 1
Open your templates sidebar_modules/tags.tpl-file in text editor and modify this part

{php}
	include_once(mnminclude.'tags.php');
	global $main_smarty;
	
	$cloud=new TagCloud();
	$cloud->smarty_variable = $main_smarty; // pass smarty to the function so we can set some variables
	$cloud->word_limit = tags_words_limit_s;
	$cloud->min_points = tags_min_pts_s; // the size of the smallest tag
	$cloud->max_points = tags_max_pts_s; // the size of the largest tag
	
	$cloud->show();
	$main_smarty = $cloud->smarty_variable; // get the updated smarty back from the function
{/php}

to look like this

{php}
	include_once(mnminclude.'tags.php');
	global $main_smarty;
	$range_values = array(604800);

	$cloud=new TagCloud();
	$cloud->smarty_variable = $main_smarty; // pass smarty to the function so we can set some variables
	$cloud->word_limit = tags_words_limit_s;
	$cloud->range_values = $range_values;
	$cloud->min_points = tags_min_pts_s; // the size of the smallest tag
	$cloud->max_points = tags_max_pts_s; // the size of the largest tag
	
	$cloud->show();
	$main_smarty = $cloud->smarty_variable; // get the updated smarty back from the function
{/php}

and keep all after this as it was before. Ofcourse you can change the heading of this sidebar module to Weekly tags or something but I think that you all know how to do it.
Then save the file to yourtemplate/sidebar_modules-folder as weeklytags.tpl.

Step 2
Open your templates sidebar.tpl-file and find this line

{if $Enable_Tags  eq 'true'} {assign var=sidebar_module value="tags"}{include file=$the_template_sidebar_modules."/wrapper.tpl"} {/if}

And change it to this

{if $Enable_Tags  eq 'true'} {assign var=sidebar_module value="weeklytags"}{include file=$the_template_sidebar_modules."/wrapper.tpl"} {/if}

Then upload your sidebar.tpl and weeklytags.tpl to the server and enjoy.

[Jessemn]

This is actually a great mod. I would love to see my top tags change from week to week (to whatever is popular at the time), rather than remain stagnant. I'll add this tonight and see how it goes.

Thanks!