gistfile1.php

<?php /* Hi from Puerto Rico 
i am in love with sweetcron thanks yon for the toy. 
i just made a nice tag cloud if anyone is intreted here it is. 
this uses $popular_tags and it displays tags with greater counts 
bigger in size and so on.. 
paste this to _sidebar.php replacing the original tag list code */ ?>
<h3>Popular Tags</h3> 
        <?php 
        function printTagCloud($tags) { 
                // $tags is the array 
                arsort($tags); 
                //adjust to your liking 
         $max_size = 10; // max font size in pixels 
                 $min_size = 8; // min font size in pixelhttp://gist.github.com/images/modules/gist/paste_button.pngs 
        // largest and smallest array values 
                $max_qty = max(array_values($tags)); 
                $min_qty = min(array_values($tags)); 
        // find the range of values 
                $spread = $max_qty - $min_qty; 
                if ($spread == 0) { // we don't want to divide by zero 
                $spread = 1; 
                } 
        // set the font-size increment 
                $step = ($max_size - $min_size) / ($spread); 
        // loop through the tag array 
                foreach ($tags as $tag) { 
                        $name=$tag->slug;  
                        $count=$tag->count; 
                // calculate font-size 
                // find the $count in excess of $min_qty 
                // multiply by the font-size increment ($size) 
                // and add the $min_size set above 
                $size = round($min_size + (($count - $min_qty) * 
$step)); 
                echo '<li><a href=" '. $url . '/items/tag/', $name . ' 
" style="font-size: ' . $size . 'px" 
                        title="' . $count . ' things tagged with ' . $name . '">' . $name . 
'</a></li> '; 
                                } 
        } 
                                        $tags= $popular_tags; 
                                        $Url= $this->config->item('base_url') 
        ?> 
<ul class="tag_list"> 
<!-- BEGIN Tag Cloud --> 
<?php printTagCloud($tags); ?> 
<!-- END Tag Cloud --> 
</ul> 

<?php /*now here is some css that can be used with this 
add to main.css 
ul.tag_list li { 
        display: inline; 
        margin-right: 3px; 
        padding: 3px; text-decoration: none; 
     } 
ul.tag_list li :link  { color: #81d601; } 
ul.tag_list li :visited { color: #019c05; } 
ul.tag_list li :hover { color: #ffffff; background: #69da03; } 
ul.tag_list li :active { color: #ffffff; background: #ACFC65; } */ ?>