Comments on: Making Efficient Tag Clouds With Drupal’s Taxonomy

By: Marilee Gilcrease

Marilee Gilcrease — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 14:19:51 +0000

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By: Michal Haselden

Michal Haselden — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 12:00:06 +0000

Great article! I am going to take a good amout of time to ponder the article.

By: rani

rani — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 06:23:08 +0000

am keenly waiting for your reply

By: rani

rani — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 05:18:27 +0000

Hi,

am new one into the drupal, i would like to add tag cloud in to my content type i create one custom content type.I couldnot able to add tag cloud in to that but it works on the default content type. Hope you will conside this question and will reply soon...

bye

By: Wim Mostrey

Wim Mostrey — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 10:31:27 +0000

It should be noted that there is a patch RTBC to increase performance for the tagadelic module: http://drupal.org/node/193057.

By: james

james — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 17:56:52 +0000

try to post screenshot also for the tutorials anyways nice article. keep it up..

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By: hakunin

hakunin — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 04:22:50 +0000

both go into your template.php

By: Newbie

Newbie — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:23:33 +0000

Probably a dumb question, but I have to ask it: ;)

In which file did you put the functions _phptemplate_variables and theme_tags? Is it page.tpl.php?

Thanks!

By: Stranger

Stranger — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 01:41:07 +0000

hai! thanks for article.

What you think about allocate some tags at tags cloud by put "ctrl"? It's very difficultly to realise?

By: Stranger

Stranger — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 15:52:52 +0000

I needed to do something very similar but I used some more of the stock Drupal tools.

I put these functions in a module with some other helper functions specific to my site.

The first thing I did was use to use the tagadelic module to define a custom tag cloud block.

function theme_mymodule_tag_cloud($vid = 1){
$tags = tagadelic_get_weighted_tags(array($vid),7,15);
$tags = tagadelic_sort_tags($tags);
$block = theme('tagadelic_weighted', $tags);//return a chunk of 12 tags
$block .= theme('tagadelic_more', $vid);//add more link
return $block;
}

But as you noted, the tagedelic module uses some really expensive queries that you don’t want to run on every page load.

So I also used the hook_cron, but instead, I used Drupal’s internal caching system. So this is all the code I had to write:

function mymodule_cron(){
cache_clear_all('mymodule', 'cache', TRUE);
cache_set('mymodule_tag_cloud', 'cache', serialize(theme(mymodule_tag_cloud)));
}

Then I created a function that retrieved the cached tag cloud and call it from a block using the php format option. Of course now it occurs to me, I could have just put this php in the block instead of having it exist as a function in my module. Or maybe, I just have just properly defined this as a block in the module using the block hooks.

function mymodule_cached_cloud(){
$cached = cache_get('custom_tag_cloud');
return unserialize($cached->data);
}

I have not looked in several months, but I think the tagedelic developers may be implementing some more caching in the module.