Taggly, a tag-cloud library

[eluser]Gavin Vickery[/eluser]
Hey Everybody,

I've been working on one of my first libraries for CI called Taggly. Taggly is used to easily create tag-clouds. You can also control how your tag-cloud is created by setting configuration options.

You can download Taggly, along with its user guide here:
Download Taggly

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What is a Tag-Cloud?
A tag-cloud is a collection of text links with varying size (and sometimes color) based on their popularity. Sites such as Flickr, Delicious and Tag-A-Cloud use this concept.

What does it look like?
See Taggly in action

What is the syntax?
The syntax in its very basic form is this:

Code:

$myArray = array (
    array(10, 'PHP', 'http://php.com'),
    array(32, 'MySQL', 'http://mysql.com'),
    array(5, 'CSS', 'http://css.com')
);

echo $this->taggly->cloud($myArray);

You can get more complex by passing configuration parameters:

Code:

$configArray = array (
    'min_font' => 20,
    'max_font' => 60,
    'html_start' => '<li>',
    'html_end' => '</li>',
    'shuffle' => TRUE,
    'class' => 'my_css_class'
);

echo $this->taggly->cloud($myArray, $configArray);

Taggly Output
Taggly creates and returns links with defined sizes based on the data given in your array.

An example output:

Code:

<a style="font-size: 21px" class="taggly" href="http://example.com" title="Hue">Hue</a>
<a style="font-size: 18px" class="taggly" href="http://example.com" title="Image Ready">Image Ready</a>
<a style="font-size: 33px" class="taggly" href="http://example.com" title="Background">Background</a>
<a style="font-size: 33px" class="taggly" href="http://example.com" title="CodeIgniter">CodeIgniter</a>
<a style="font-size: 16px" class="taggly" href="http://example.com" title="Encode">Encode</a>
<a style="font-size: 23px" class="taggly" href="http://example.com" title="Depth">Depth</a>
<a style="font-size: 29px" class="taggly" href="http://example.com" title="Grafix">Grafix</a>
<a style="font-size: 18px" class="taggly" href="http://example.com" title="Adobe">Adobe</a>

You can find more information in the User Guide included in the Taggly download package.