Free tagcloud software for linux

TagCloud Maker Class is a class that takes a single dimensional array of terms and outputs a piece of HTML with each term wrapped in a span tag with an ID that you can define in your CSS.

TagCloud Maker Class script can be called either as an object or as a static class.

Check out the example page. The keywords from the sample page come from the last 30 entries of my blog. Ill admit I cheated and just open the database and pull them from there instead of trying to call my blog w/curl or fopen and parse it. (Although that would have been cooler.) I then ran each blog entry against Yahoos Term Extraction API to get the terms. Then I pumped that array into my new TagCloud maker. The important code you cant see from the index.php is below.


require_once(TagCloud.php);
$x = TagCloud::fetch_cloud($thisArray,...,tagcloud_,http://www.technorati.com/tags/%s);
$o = new TagCloud($thisArray,...,tagcloud_,http://www.technorati.com/tags/%s,10,weight,2);
$o->get_cloud();
$y = $o->output_cloud;

As you can see, I used 2 different methods of creating the 2 lists. The first is just calling the object::method statically with all the necessary parameters. This is by far the easiest way to use this class and unless you need something special, its the way I recommend. The second way it to instantiate an object. I pass all the variables into the constructor but you could just as easily use the setters to set them all. (dont know why you would but hey, I spent an extra 15 minutes creating getters and setters so use them, by all means use them!)

GROU.PS Web is a general purpose PHP API, created for use in Web 2.0 sites. It includes frequently used design patterns of well known web 2.0 sites. For a correct definiton of Web 2.0, you may want to check http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0

Our API currently has 2 classes:

1) TagCloud?.class.php

Feed the class with your own data, and create Web 2.0 style tag clouds

2) Utility.class.php

General purpose functions. For instance getStyledDateDiff gives nicely formatted date differences that are in use in digg.com and grou.ps

The APIs are not complete yet. We are open to any ideas, wished coming from you.

Usage:

Tag Cloud Example
< ?php
require_once(/path/to/TagCloud.class.php);

$tc = new TagCloud();

$tc->setMinFontSize(8);
$tc->setMaxFontSize(20);

$tc->setDistributionType(TC_RANDOM_DISTRIBUTION);

$tc->setDataClass(tags);

$tc->addData(love,10);
$tc->addData(sex,20);
$tc->addData(food,5);
$tc->addData(business,1);
$tc->addData(PHP,2);

$res = $tc->generate();

echo $res;
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Utility Example:

< ?php

require_once(/path/to/Utility.class.php);

$start_date = "September 21, 1999";
$end_date = "yesterday";

$u = new Utility();

$datediff = $u->getStyledDateDiff($start_date,$end_date);

$birthday = "11 January 1978";

$zodiacsign = $u->getZodiacSign($birthday);

echo $datediff;
echo "
";
echo $zodiacsign;

? >