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Tag clouds: is there in flash or javascript

I would like to show tagcloud on my home page. Found this wordpress flash plugin http://alexisyes.com/tags/wpcumulus , but I needed wordpress installed for that. I am wondering if there is another standalone plugin similar to wpcumulus that can be customized.

I don't want to install wordpress, but I would like to use wpcumulus. Is it possible? If it weren't for wpcumulus, I could have used any of the other offline tag clouds.

Just curious, I came across all tag clouds that were implemented in either flash or flex. Can I get a demo link / plugin that has implemented the same in javascript.

Thank you ~ Shafi

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You can definitely use wpcumulus (I just downloaded and tested it). You just need to figure out what data it needs to create the tag cloud.

First, you need to download swf and add it to your site. You can look at the installed version / demo to see the correct swf embed html.

Then you need to figure out how he gets his data. The fastest way I think to do this is to go to the wpcumulus demo and look at the HTTP requests / responses. For this I am using the Live Http Headers plugin for Firefox. It is probably looking for an xml file that is set in the swf code to insert. I assume the xml might look something like this:



<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<tags>
    <tag name="Books" count="4" />
    <tag name="Magazines" count="20" />
    <!-- etc... -->
</tags>

Now you just need to create an xml file containing this data. You can either make it a static xml file or use php or asp.net to create a dynamic page generating the xml.

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In other words, I would like to have an "auto-refresh" feature for the tag cloud. It can be done?



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Download BlogCumulus.Net for the BlogEngine.Net platform from 99atoms.com . This will give you a complete understanding of how you can use it in .Net. Similarly for PHP, read this page about using it in Drupal

You don't actually need to specify the complete xml file, but the format string is:

<tags>
<a href="#" title="C#" style="..." class="..">C#</a>
.............
...............
</tags>

I think the size of the tag comes from the class attribute in the <a>. You can use swfobject.js to create markup for inserting a flash object into a page.

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