[tbones]

I want to "force" my users to use existing tags of the tag cloud as far as it´s justified to get a better linkage between the stories.

Therefore they should be able to work at step 1 and klick on Tag Cloud to see the existing tags in a new window. To make it a little bit easier, I don´t mind if the tag could opens everytime in a new window.

Can you tell me how to modify the code to achieve this?

[not2serious]

Originally Posted by tbones

I want to "force" my users to use existing tags of the tag cloud as far as it´s justified to get a better linkage between the stories.

I think this may be a good idea. This would increase the traffic between stories.

[tbones]

I´ve tried <a href="{$URL_tagcloud}" target="_blank" >{#PLIGG_Visual_Tags#}</a> in ./templates/yget/header.tpl without any success.

[savant]

this would require a bit more changes and i don't have a solution.

When i do, i'll post it here.

[savant]

here's a bit of code to get the tag cloud displayed and add it to the tag text box.

You can make this better, but if you do please post the changes you've made to share with everyone.

in submit.php

Find these lines:

PHP Code:

$main_smarty->assign('lastspacer', 0);
    $main_smarty->assign('cat_array', $array); 


and add this below those lines.

PHP Code:

        $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 


This will create the tag cloud and pass the tag cloud info on to the template engine.

in submit_step_2.tpl

Find these lines.

PHP Code:

<strong>{#PLIGG_Visual_Submit2_Tags_Inst1#}</strong> {#PLIGG_Visual_Submit2_Tags_Example#} <em>{#PLIGG_Visual_Submit2_Tags_Inst2#}</em><br/>
            <input type="text" id="tags" name="tags" value="{$tags_words}" size="60" maxlength="40" /><br /><br /> 


below that add this.

PHP Code:

            <label>Top Tags:</label>
            <strong>Click on a tag to add</strong><br/>
            
            {literal}
            <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
                function addTag(tag_string)
                {
                    var tagsTextBox = document.getElementById('tags');
                    var middleBit = '';
                    var tagsTextBoxValue = tagsTextBox.value;
                    var tagsTextBoxLength = tagsTextBoxValue.length;
                    if(tagsTextBoxLength == 0)
                    {
                        middleBit = '';
                    }else{
                        middleBit = ', ';
                    }
                    tagsTextBox.value = tagsTextBox.value + middleBit + tag_string;
                }
            </script>
            {/literal}
            <div id="tagcloud" style="margin: 5px 0 0 0; line-height: {php} echo tags_max_pts_s; {/php}pt;">
                {section name=customer loop=$tag_number}
                
                    {* --- to change the way the words are displayed, change this part --- *}
                        <span style="font-size: {$tag_size[customer]}pt">
                            <a href="javascript:addTag('{$tag_name[customer]}');">{$tag_name[customer]}</a>
                        </span>
                    {* ---        --- *}
                    
                {/section}
            </div> 


You can change the look and feel, how the javascript should interact and other changes. Post what changes you've made to share with everyone.

[tbones]

I already forgot about that :-)

What an excellent code! All thumbs up for this performance! Thank you very much! This is a must for V1.0.

I´ve added two <br/> at the end of submit_step2.tpl to get a little bit space to the story description.

I´d like to subsitute $tag_number with the Tag cloud word limit variable. What´s its name? Absolute numbers don´t seem to work.

[savant]

is there a reason why you want to change the $tag_number bit??

$cloud->word_limit // limits how many tags to display.

this is the query in the TagCloud Class

$sql = "select tag_words, count(*) as count $from_where order by count desc limit $this->word_limit";

[tbones]

Possibly I got something wrong:
My users post to very different topics so it´s less likely that the TOP 8 tags fit. Therefore I´d like to have all tags of the cloud displayed. I know that therefore submit_step2 will become a quite long page but a good linkage between similar stories is more important to me.

[savant]

doesn't increasing $cloud->word_limit increase the number of tags??

[tbones]

I´ve tried
$cloud->word_limit = tags_words_limit;
in submit.php but I guess the limit for the "big" cloud has a different variable name. It works with an absolute number like 50.