Tutorial: How-To make a Tag Cloud using PHP & MySQL

How to make Tag Cloud using PHP & MySQL

Tag Clouds are pretty common now-a-days in almost all the web 2.0 company sites. Be it Technorati, Zoom CLouds, WordPress, Blogger etc.

Why Tag Clouds are important?

Pretty much for the same reasoon: Appealing Users.

On seeing all these even I have decided to introduce the Tag Cloud feature in our project.

Now, the very important question: How do we code to create a Tag Cloud using PHP & MySql?

Here I will show you how to code it.

First the logic:

1. Collect all the tags & Count{how-many times it has been tagged} from DB{MySQL}

2. Put them into a array {PHP}

3. Calculate the maximum and minimum count of the tags used

4. Now, loop through each tag and just change the size of the font.

5. Define a simple class say “wrapper” which will contain the tag clouds

6. Call the function to generate the tag cloud.  {Javascript}

Now, since Im falling short of time, so I will cut the crap and you guys take the code directly.

Yes, a word from me, I will surely update it as time permits in full detail.

Cheerz

Srinix

PS: Download the Code here: Tag Cloud Code

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