Last Updated on Monday, 17 December 2012
- Download the appropriate file for your system (see compatibility table below)
- Login to your Joomla admin panel and install as per usual.
How to Use
- Install the ZIP using your Joomla! Admin Panel > Extension Manager
- View the module on your front-end to see if it does what you want it to do.
- Modify the module parameters as necessary.
Setup
- First of all, you need to make it visible. These 3 steps will have your module ready:
- The further steps below are how to configure it to match yours or your clients brief.
Style & Colors:
- Articles & Content:
- Words & Link:
- 3rd-Party Integration:
- Problems?:
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Joes Revolver Map (JRM)
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Fri 17-May-13
Hmmm... Sounds like a problem with the identifier. Was it working before and has there been a change ...
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Hello Joel: Yes, I do have it published on all pages of the site. I just went back to Revolver maps to ...
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Hi Bill, From the developers of RevolverMaps, "the module would need to be published on every page ...
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Fri 17-May-13
Hi Bill, I'll investigate further as you're not the first to say this happens. In the meantime, simply ...
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Fri 17-May-13
Its a great extension. But when I set it up I only show my presence on the 3D map and no other visitors ...
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Comments
I hope the next version will display international characters - specially the slovak
I would like to use your joomla extension on my webpage. However I would like to exclude some common words like (the Dutch words for) can, have, do. Can I use the override code to do so and how does it work? I tried excluding short words, but that doesn't have the result I want.
Thanks in advance for your response!
David
Thank you for your comment. We have been looking at this since the last version of this module. I am happy to say that version 1.3 of this module has been tested, QA'd and released. You can download it from this article or from the Joomla! Extensions website. Not 100% sure if it excludes international languages but your feedback would be really helpful. Cheers!
Thanks!
David
Just activated the module. As a result all pages are blanc - just white, no content. Everything is back as it was as soon as I deactivated the module. - Running on PHP 4.4.7. & Joomla 1.5.20.
Any Ideas how to solve this?
Thanks,Ronald
Ouch! I have just compared what I could between PHP versions 4 and 5 and may have a solution. To this end, I have made version 1.4.1 of my word cloud module which may resolve the issue. It is available for download from the downloads section of this website.
Before:
foreach($module exclusionlist_a rray as &$value) { $value = trim($value); }
After:
foreach($module exclusionlist_a rray as $value) { $value = trim($value); }
Please test at your earliest convenience and confirm whether this worked or not. Cheers!
Thanks, Ronald
Awaiting new release!)
I have upgraded this module to version 1.5 available via either my site or the Joomla! extensions development site. Please test and let me know if there are any problems! Cheers!
Kind Regards,
Joe
I got a lot of messages and it starts with the underneath.
What do I have to do to get it work?
Warning: preg_replace() [function.preg- replace]: Compilation failed: support for \P, \p, and \X has not been compiled at offset 1 in /home/.sites/14 7/site33/web/mo dules/mod_joesw ordcloud/helper .php on line 58
Thanks for the comment. I think this is an issue for all servers that don't support international characters. What I can try to do is remove just the 3 special characters "\P", "\p" and "\X". I just need some time to arrange what order it will be in the update.
Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 18874368 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 35 bytes) in /realestate/mod ules/mod_joeswo rdcloud/helper. php on line 240
Can you tell me what might be causing this?
I published your comment but can't remember if I chased it up. I have two versions of this module now, one for Joomla 1.5.x websites and a new one for Joomla 1.6 websites. Please try and let me know how it goes. Cheers!
Kind Regards,
Joel
thank you for this nice module. It works pretty well on my website. I only would like to change the horizontal size of the module. Is there a way to do that?
If you are familiar with CSS you can do this. Otherwise it's usually a question of fitting modules into the width of your website page (module manager?). This would depend on your template.
Alternatively, it wouldn't be a bad thing as I've seen it appear on some websites and it takes up the whole bottom of their page... I'll make a note to release it in the next version.
I have been trying to use it on a site with 200+ K2 Articles. It looks great, but when I publish the module the performance of my site drops dramatically. It must be a problem with this module because when I unpublish the problem goes away.
Is there a solution for this, because I really like the "simplicity" of this module.
Thanks,
KooTjoo
Thanks for your message. Yes my joomla site is pretty loaded with articles so it also suffers performance wise. This is why I made the module be able to read just the titles rather than all the text. Unlike other word tag modules, this does an absolute count of all the words in k2 and joomla content unless you opt for just "title" in which case it through searches every article title and totals the number of words it found.
200 articles is a lot so I would suggest trying to just read the titles (Joomla 1.6 > Extensions > Module Manager > Joes Word Cloud > Take Words From). If the performance doesn't improve, let me know and if you could send a URL, I can judge better what it is in my module that could be causing this.
As I said not realtime and the next version will skip all processes if the keyword inclusion list is not blank.
Thank you for your comment. I've just double-checked and both Word Cloud modules (for Joomla! versions 1.5.x and 1.6.0) both do this (originally referred as "cached-mode"). You need to let the module once run with the "keyword inclusion list" left empty/blank. Copy the words from the cloud on the front-end of your website and then paste these in the admin section field "keyword inclusion list". If this field is not empty, the script will not scan the databases (I had to do this for my own site at one point but now it runs fine just reading off the titles). Hope that answers your question. If it doesn't work feel free to shout back
Also the font-size in this case means that the first word will be the biggest and then the module will shuffle these about whenever the page reloads.
Hope that helps!
Thanks for this great module.
I'm actually struggling to complete the exclusion list. Maybe did i miss a point, but is it possible to exclude expressions including "'" like : i'm or ive ? I'm french, so the words are rather "d'un" "d'une" and keep appearing despite the cache purging...
Thanks for any solution
Apostrophes are a bit complicated to pass through the system. Mostly because they're used for XSS and SQL-Injections which can be harmful to a website, which is why a lot of developers will not allow apostrophes.
My script is meant to take out any punctuation. Which is why I think it must be displaying those expressions as the keyword exclusion list compares the words "I'm" and "Im" and says they're not to be excluded. I will release a version that addresses this.
Thanks for answering.
It seems the exclusion list is now working fine even with the apostrophes. It is sometimes a bit hard to fix issues with Joomla (or maybe is it just the server i was working on) because the cache is not really cleared just by using the "clear" and then "purge" cache fonctions. It seems that some changes take a little longer to take effect.
Anyway the module is now working fine.
Thanks again.
You can change the default URL that the word links to. This is set in the Search URL parameter which adds the word to end of the Search URL so the default:
"?option=com_search&searchword="
Means:
"http://www.yoursite.com/index.php?option=com_search&searchword=######"
where ###### is each keyword.
If I changed this to:
"?option=com_content&menutype="
Then my keyword
"laarzen"
would mean that when I click on the tag, the link should go to
"http://www.yoursite.com/index.php?option=com_content&menutype=laarzen"
If you have SEO enabled your site (so search engine friendly URLS) as I do:
To make the extension redirect to:
"http://www.joellipman.com/support/video-how-tos/396-how-to-make-your-joomla-site-use-seo-friendly-urls"
With the keyword "396-how-to-make-your-joomla-site-use-seo-friendly-urls"
My Search URL should be "/support/video -how-tos/"
Hope that helps!
http://djmorillo.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=77&Itemid=129
Can I just enable seo without any risk
because I had also to change something in the text of the htacces file. What do I have to add in the search url now. I have tried several
things, but I get redirected to error pages. Hope you have a solution.
a) the words come from the "keyword inclusion list" parameter (so that all of the words have links that you have created)
b) that you have menu items for each word that displays in the module.
As I recall you don't have to publish the menu "hidden items", just make sure it exists.
As for the Search URL parameter, I will look at a new version that picks up the article IDs (if any)... but it will be difficult as frequently used words may appear in different articles...
Homepage
There's 20-30 articles in Joomla now so I would have thought it would index those few and I'd get some results back?
Thanks in advance for any advice you can offer! Richard
That sounds great. I couldn't see an example of what you mean following your website link.
Note there are 2 versions of this module: one for Joomla version 1.5.x and another for Joomla version 1.6. (I haven't learnt to combine the two in one file yet). Which one have you installed and what is your website in?
The output I'm getting from the Word Cloud is this:
<span style="font-size:0px">Home</span></a>
I've read a few reviews saying Joomla 1.6 is a little buggy, so might give it another go in 1.5? Thanks for taking a look.
You would need to use version 1.6.0 for Joomla 1.6 and version 1.5.0 for all Joomla v1.5.x versions.
There is a v1.6.1 beta in use at my Joomla 1.6 site but I want to do some further changes to it before releasing it. I was planning on releasing it along with my new website!
If you are using v1.6.0 with Joomla 1.6 and still getting this error, please contact me on info
All working now with 1.6.2 - thank you for your help!
Struggling with your wonderful cloud, getting blank pages. Turning on logging i get,
Notice: Undefined property: stdClass::$titl e in/home/sites/c umbrialivingroo m.co.uk/public_ html/modules/mo d_joeswordcloud /helper.php on line 235
Opening that line in Deamweaver gives me
$title = $row->title;
Running it through the W3C validator I get
general entity "searchword" not defined and no default entity
Thank you for your email. It looks like you fixed it before I could.
Just for the benefit of anyone else who gets this problem:
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The cloud would not produce the search results when the site was on my laptop using Xampp or when hosted to a redirected site. Updating my nameservers to the new host has cleared the problem so I assume the search was not being directed back properly due to conflicting DNS issues.
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Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/targetjo/ public_html/wel come/modules/mo d_joeswordcloud /helper.php on line 233
Thank you for the message. I've had this problem before and it has to do with PHP4/5 compatibility. I must have slipped a foreach() in the code because it's quicker coding-wise.
I've released another version (well 2, one for Joomla 1.5 and one for Joomla 1.6). This replaces the foreach() with a standard for() loop. Please download when convenient (same link as before) and let me know how it goes. Cheers!
great module, but what's about w3c (there are some errors like:
cannot generate system identifier for general entity "searchword"
This is usually a cascading error caused by a an undefined entity reference or use of an unencoded ampersand (&) in an URL or body text. See the previous message for further details.
???
greets
Tricky one this. It's about what you put in the search URL and also how Joomla formats the value each time you save the module settings.
By default the search URL should be:
?option=com_search&searchword=
If you go into the admin section and set it to the above, Joomla will format it to a single ampersand. For it to work on my own sites, I have to set the search URL to:
?option=com_search&amp;searchword=
But everytime I have to modify the module, I have to add that extra "amp;" if I want to save the settings.
Thanx in advance!
interesting. Possibly needs more of the url so in the admin panel try "/xampp/index.php?option=com_search&searchword="
or if you're not including the "/xampp/" then maybe just "/index.php?option=com_search&searchword="
Just had a look. It seems to be taking the most frequent words from news titles. I would suggest increasing the minimum word length to 6 or more.
Thanks for getting back - still having the same problems with the suggested change. I'm even getting entires spanning 2 words e.g 'a numb' being selected from sentence 'a number'. Weird.
Does it do that if you include both titles and introtexts?
If you go to Extensions > Extension Manager > Modules, do you have the following: mod_joeswordclo ud Site 1.5.1 Janu ary 2011 JoelLipman.Com?
Cheers!
Yes - version is as you say 1.5.1 + joomla itself is 1.5.22. Still getting the same strange search items in the tag cloud. Jumping ship to cumulus - cheers though.
Am I missing something, or is this an error?
I'm using a built-in PHP function (array_count_va lues) which usually works fine. I do the same to my site but I've got it scanning for most frequent words in titles. The search also returns results from other sections. As it's a word counter and not articles it's possible that the word is mentioned more times in the 22 results. If you get my meaning.
I hope that's not too confusing (I confused myself). I've double-checked the script and the array_count_val ues function separates off the frequency of the words. I've compared to some direct database queries and it seems ok but if not send us a link and I'll be happy to have a look.
-Sara
first of all thanks for this component. Worked like a charm for me, especially after adding a decent stoplist.
But i was wondering if it's possible to get it to work with multiple languages (JoomFish) at once? I thought about 3 copies of the module and showing them dependent on the language, but i had no idea where to start modifying the according queries to fetch from the translation table rather than the core articles. Thanks for your help!
Yes this is to be included in a later version of the module for Joomla 1.6 as it was requested some time ago. It's been meant to make use of Joomla 1.6's language column which is new...
If you are asking related to Joomla v1.5 then you may need to wait a little longer. I'll see what Joom!Fish does but it should be ok.
it does not work. I assume it has something to do with
"?option=com_search&searchword="
for example
http://www.mitsm.de/?option=com_search&searchword=62351273 in teh browser
i got
Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in ..../mod_joeswo rdcloud/helper. php on line 239
is this because I'm using a sef tool? maybe I also don't use the normal search option help? thanks! rob
I've had that before but that was only because I tried installing a Joomla 1.5 module in a Joomla 1.6 site.
Also if you are using SEO urls, then the value should be just "http://www.mit sm.de/search?se archword=" or just "/search?search word="
i can serach with http://www.mitsm.de/Search/?option =com_search&sea rchword= in the browser but if I put /Search/?option =com_search&sea rchword= with or without the leading / in the confi it does not work
I got a little problem running the tag cloud on the production server with mysql4. On my temporary machine with mysql5.1 all was running fine, but after backporting the site to production state the cloud module just stays empty.
Not sure I have a server available to test this and recreate the error. There are 2 database commands this module sends:
- UNION ALL (available in MySQL v4.0.0+)
- SET NAMES (MySQL v4.1+ or server tweak)
To avoid using the UNION clause, you would have to disable the 3 options of this module in the admin section. So say NO to "Include K2 content?", "Include Hot Property?", and "Include Phoca Download?".
To avoid using the SET NAMES clause (Do not do for sites NOT using Latin1 character sets), you would need to modify the helper.php file included in this download and remove lines 203-205 (inclusive). I.e. from the $sql_utf8 to the $temp_result line.
I hope that helps. Feel free to reply to this or use our contact form to update us on how this goes :)
this did not do the trick. I'm really clueless why it stopped working. This is btw the statement if i enable the option in the module parameters:
Code:
[0 valid data row(s). SELECT title, intro FROM ( SELECT a.title title, a.introtext intro FROM `#__content´ a WHERE a.state=1 ) t1 ]
It's as if the #__content isn't changing its prefix. The default should mean the "#_" is replaced with "jos" so the table will be "jos_content". Can I ask if you use a different prefix then the default installation one? If you run the query you sent me with #__content replaced with your content table (usually jos_content) then does this work? (should just retrieve titles and introtext).
no, jos_content does not work (yes, it is the right table ;)).
Thats the result of the change:
Code:
[0 valid data row(s). SELECT title, intro FROM ( SELECT a.title title, a.introtext intro FROM `jos_content´ a WHERE a.state=1 ) t1 ]
The exact Database Version is the 4.0.27-nmm1-log .
Do you think this is the showstopper? I need to talk to my hoster then.
That query doesn't work for me because of the second backtick (`) after the jos_content. Sounds silly but I ran query above and it errored, but when I change the second apostrophe to a backtick, it works... Thing is I've checked the module files and this is how it is in the script.
I would figure the solution is to get rid of the backticks altogether and just hope no one names their databases after reserved words.
Does the query: Code:
SELECT title, intro FROM ( SELECT a.title title, a.introtext intro FROM jos_content a WHERE a.state=1 ) t1work?Anyway, I got it running now, I just shortened the statement to:
Code:
$sql_query = 'SELECT title,introtext FROM jos_content where state=1';
Now it shows a nice cloud again. Thanks for your help!!
Fatal error: Call to undefined function mb_strtolower() in E:\domains\m\ma thewhill.com\us er\htdocs\modul es\mod_joesword cloud\helper.ph p on line 27
Thanks to you I've just looked into this and there is another way of doing this which has been tested to be quicker so give me a day or two and I should release a new version which doesn't use this function
(Note: mb_strtolower() requires PHP v4.3.0+).
I have released a new version (v1.5.2) for Joomla! v1.5.x users that hopefully addresses this issue. I will be working on getting the v1.6.3 release for Joomla! v1.6.x websites as soon as possible.
Please help!
Can I ask what Joomla! version you are using as well as is there any text/punctuatio n in the "inclusion keyword list"?
Also if you're not using K2, HotProperty or Phoca Download, make sure these are switched off.
If you're still having problems, try switching on the "debug SQL query" option and it will show you how many articles and what it's asking the database.
Hope that helps! Feel free to reply to this comment.
Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home//public_h tml/plugins/sea rch/discussions /discussions.ph p on line 138
...when I click one of the words in the tag cloud. I'm running 1.6.2
what can I do to solve this?
It looks like your search URL parameter in the admin panel for this module has been changed to link to the discussions component or there is an issue with the search plugin for the discussions component. I have the same Disucssions component v1.3 running on a Joomla 1.6.3 website and this cloud without any issue.
There is a double slash in the URL you posted. It's also possible that the foreach() method isn't fully supported on your system. Which I could fix but can you tell me what value is in the SearchURL parameter in the admin panel for this module? Also if you could include a link (only logged-in users will see it, in the "Website" field of these comments.
Thanks for your email. I would suggest checking the search plugin for the discussions forum is enabled. Disable it if it's causing problems. Otherwise I have a Joomla 1.6 site successfully running Discussions. It's true that I've run into some issues with running them alongside but fingers crossed, the discussions developers will get it right :) If you do find what causes the problem, I'll be interested to see what it was (and whether it was this word module).
I have a problem with displaying your module on my website, it doesn't show any words. With debugging on it says:
0 of 18 word(s)
18 valid data row(s)
[SELECT LOWER(title) AS title, LOWER(introtext ) AS introtext FROM `#__content` WHERE state=1]
Why doesn't it show the words?
Do you have a link I can see or if it isn't live can you give more info as to whether the site is on a window setup (WAMP) and what version of Joomla you are using?
Cheers!
Is it possible to exclude categories or article? Where must i put the IDs in the sql-query?
Thanks
Rene
Kind Regards,
Joe
Thanks for developing the module. Great effort.
I installed the 1.6.2 version on my Joomla 1.6.1 site and it works great - apart from the module suffix feature, which I need otherwise the module doesn't match the rest of the layout.
Any ideas? Your help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks very much in advance.
This is an issue I had with the Joomla1.5 version of this module (mistake on my part for not including it) which I'm addressing in a release for Joomla 1.6. I'll email this comment when it's available for download.
Found this was because I'm referring to the module class suffix differently in my 1.5.x versions compared to my 1.6.x versions of this module. I have released version 1.6.3 of this module which hopefully addresses your issue as well as some others.
Apologies for the delay, testing went somewhat awry and I needed to be sure that I'm not just releasing another monstrosity into the Joomla community.
Thanks for the update.
I've installed the 1.6.3 version, but I'm afraid to report that I can't still get the module class suffix to work
I'm pretty sure it's because of my template, though - I'm using one of the RocketTheme ones - and the template has an override for the module output.
That said, some of the other modules that I've got installed are using the module suffix correctly despite the override.
May I ask you help in a small modification:
I'd like to have a border-bottom in grey. Where I can do this modification? I can't find a css-file.
Many thanks for help.
You would need to give the module a class suffix (eg. jwcmodule), then in a CSS file (eg. template.css) you can add
Code:
.jwcmodule {border-bottom:1px solid grey}I hope that helps!
Kind Regards,
Joe
How can I solve this so that the Module Class Suffix option will be used?
I have not been able to recreate this error. I have a Yootheme template which works fine for Joomla 1.6 (http://live.joellipman.com/ - Corona template) and for Joomla 1.5 (http://www.drawnjoe.com/ - Crystal template). This module works fine on both without changing any of the default settings.
Please tell me what Joomla version you are using and what template as this has happened for other people and I would like this to be resolved. Thank you!
Kind Regards,
Joe
Pascal
Still cannot recreate the error. I am using Joomla! 1.6.3 and Yootheme Template Expo v5.5.6 (April 2011). Demo site: http://dev10.joellipman.com/. I know this problem exists though as other people have reported it so I know you're not inventing it.
I am hoping the problem is because the current module (v1.6.3) isn't in an MVC structure. I am currently trialling a version 1.6.4 that has been changed into an MVC extension and am also hoping this will fix your issue.
It's the only thing I can think of as I don't control the module title with the module itself (other than via the MVC). There are some other fixes included in version 1.6.4 which will be released as soon as I finished testing it. I will try to remember to update this post so that you'll be alerted to try it and see if it fixes the problem.
Honestly I don't find the use of this nowadays for users or google, you are just putting links to searches which is not really recommended or good from google eyes. Would be awesome to just place a keyword in your module linking to an article... creating usefull content instead of a random search
You can do this, it just depends whether you've switched the site to SEO friendly URLs. Unfortunately the same word might be used in more than one article in which case how will the system know what you want to do?
You can use the "Include keyword list" option to specify the title(s) of the article(s) (separate with comma) then your search URL parameter will be something like "index.php?opti on=com_content& amp;title=" or whatever the receiving title variable was.
It was abandoned as a development because Joomla wouldn't be able to figure out which article it has to link to based on a single word.
Thanks for reply, there are currently 2 systems that are capable of doing this for joomla 1.5.
One is "labels" and the other one "Tags".
They create a url www.yoursite/tags/yourtag there you edit an article and it shows something like "related articles" which contain those terms.
So basicly you create your own article for a word and it shows the different articles containing that word.. apart from the own article defined in the term.
Sounds interesting. I may have to include it in a future release though not sure on the delivery. The point of this module was to minimize setup. This module doesn't work on tags but if the words change a lot, it would probably generate a lot of articles all with one word titles. I want to automate this, perhaps it could create a single article (or component page) that lists related articles based on a given word...
I didn't actually realize people were going to use this module so much or see potential in it, as you said. It's just for search engines to bolster relevance rather than for website visitors.
Thanks anyway for your suggestion. It might be included as it isn't the first time someone has asked for this.
PD: Still think tags and labels are the examples to follow.
Apologies for the delay. In part due to a flood wiping out my home exchange but also because all the changes in the new version were not as easy to implement as I originally thought. Testing has taken up almost a fortnight because it consistently failed initially and the module had to be rewritten anyway based on an MVC model.
Changes this time round:
Code:
v1.6.4 (13/06/2011)
- Module Content Caching
- Include content based on User Level
- Include Category IDs
- Exclude Category IDs
- Sort Words By (shuffle, alphabet, frequency)
- Sort Words Order (ascending, descending)
- Restructured extension into an MVC model (to fix H3 and Module Class Suffix issues?)
Note the admin parameter: "Use Access Levels" is a restriction for the general levels: Public, Registered, or Special. For example, a "Super User" has access to level 1, 2, and 3 (ie. Public, Registered and Special), a normal website visitor who is not logged-in will be access level 1 (ie. Public).
A copy of this version has been downgraded to work with Joomla 1.5.x websites and is available as JWC v1.5.3.
Joe
Great news: Joes Word Cloud 1.6.4 now works with te Module Class Suffix!!!
Problem solved!
Pascal
Thanks again for your patience.
I seem to be suffering from the 'blank content' feature also. I installed the 1.6.4 version of the module on my Joomla 1.6.3 site running php 5.2.9 and mysql 5.1.40
The dbug output gives
// Debug
1 of 4 word(s)
4 valid data row(s) of 4 total row(s).
[SELECT title, introtext FROM `#__content` WHERE state=1]
any pointers would be appreciated
Regards
Paul
The dreaded blank error again. Although the module seems to have found 4 rows and 4 words using that statement (may not sound right but it means the statement is valid).
Don't suppose you have a link? Are your articles managed by an extension not included by Joomla! (eg. K2, JContent?). The problem keeps coming back and I'm still not 100% sure what causes it.
Kind Regards,
Joe
no I don't use anything other than article manger in Joomla,K2 etc are not installed. I do use templates from RT although I have tested it with the the default beez atomic etc with the same result. I don't have a live link yet as the site is still in development. It is not a show stopper but certainly good to have I will check back perhaps when the next relase is available.:sad:
Regards
Paul
I use your tag module with setting of "case-sensitive - no". I have in articles words like "Dnes" and "dnes" and "DNES". Your module in this case give three tags "dnes" and "dnes" and "dnes". But when is set "case-sesnitve - no", I would like obtain only one tag "dnes". Is it possible?
I use J 1.6.3 stable, JWC 1.6.4
thx. Ladislav
I don't think so. If you had switched "case-sensitive = yes", I would have recommended to put "DNES, Dnes" in the exclusion list of the module. Because you have put "case-sensitive =no", the module will not see these as different and will lowercase everything.
My only suggestion would be to put "case-sensitive =yes" and then use the exclusion list to get rid of words you didn't want to include.
Hope that helps!
Joe
Thank for reply.
I wanted tell you, if I choice "sesitive - no". I would like obtain only one tag with size depend on occurence of all words (Dnes, DNES, dnes).
I have not problem with using case sensitive, but in this case I obtain three tagy with same value (in practice is dnes=Dnes=DNES, in English today=Today=TOD AY). If I put "Dnes" and "DNES" in black list, tag "dnes" have size dependent only of occurence of word "dnes".
ladislav
Not sure if this addresses it but I have released module version 1.6.5 which removes any spaces before and after comma separated words in the keyword exclusion list. Stared for ages and the answer was this silly.
For those of you who don't necessarily want to upgrade to 1.6.5 and you use the keyword exclusion list of this module, you could use version 1.6.4 and simply make sure there are no spaces in between the words and the commas.
As for the "case-sensitive =no", I have tested this and this also works properly.
Feel free to add to these comments if it still causes problems and I'll have a look.
i know spaces bug in exclusion list. I used list without spaces.
About switched "case-sensitive = no" and word weight
1. I need use this "case-sensitive = no". I want get only "dnes" tag. Not "DNES", "dnes", "Dnes"
2. If I switch "case-sensitive = no", I obtain three tags "dnes" and "dnes" and "dnes".
Perfect will be, when I obtain only one "dnes" with weight of "Dnes" and "DNES' and "dnes".
Im not good in English ...
Also works properly? What? weight of tags? Not for me at J 1.6.3 stable, JWC 1.6.4
http://praguedj.cz/
This is not spam, characters limit occure. Ladislav
Thank you for your patience. I think I finally see what you mean and when checking the code, I realised it was only checking initially if the word is already listed and then it checked if you changed the setting to case-sensitive.
I have modified this in release version 1.6.6 of my module and so "dnes", "DNES" are now counted in total under one "dnes" if you keep "case-sensitive =no". Again, thank you for bringing this to my attention. I hope it works for you.
Kind Regards,
Joe
Thank you for your patience.
Your module, version 1.6.6, working fine for me now.
Thank you lot. I must vote for yours extension at joomla.org
Lada
I don't know how to config ur extension. I try use this way: (http://www.yoursite.com/index.php?option=com_search&searchword=######
but it's wrong.
My site is villasunidas.es and i'm using k2 for then conten.
I need to install ur tagcloud, but i now how to config. Please, show the way.
Thanz.
Jamiel
If you mean the Search URL parameter, then no, it prefixes that with the root of your website so "http://villasu nidas.es/" then the parameter add to this "index.php?opti on=com_search&a mp;SearchWord=" will result in "http://villasunidas.es/index.php?option=com_search&SearchWord="
Is that what you mean?
You should only have to put "index.php?opti on=com_search&a mp;SearchWord=" into the parameter, by default this is what it is set to.
I have configured your module but when i press on word, open this white page:
http://www.leterrazzedelduca.it/?option=com_search&searchword=hotels%20amalfi%20coast
Thank you for your message.
I have had a look at the link you have sent and you do not appear to have a search component installed. As you have switched your site to SEF website addresses, you need to have at least a disabled/hidden menu containing items that you want to use but for which there is no link to.
Even if you enabled a "search" module this should fix this program. But your site and "?option=com_se arch" does not even work. You can change the search URL parameter if you want the module to behave differently but it will be less predictable.
Kind Regards,
Joe
Thoughts?
Nice module, keep up the good work!
~Mark
I have had several people send me their common word filters and in various languages. I advised that I couldn't add them as they add about 10Kb to my module. Downloading from an online dictionary or other site wouldn't help because it would make my module slower. As the keyword exclusion request came from a Dutch person, I couldn't really add words (used to but took them off).
So yeah you just get a keyword exclusion list and up to you if you want to write encyclopedias into it
Thanks again!
~Mark
I can send a link to the site privately if you need to take a look.
Great Module though.. would have been happy to pay for this, but will donate if I can get it working correctly.
Cheers
Paul
I have not been able to recreate the error you reported. I have enabled "Use Access Levels" and restricted this. Can I ask to what groups you have restricted your module to; there is perhaps something there I have overlooked?
Kind Regards,
Joe
$db->nameQuote('#__viewlevels')which has to be switched from Code:"SELECT id, rules FROM ".$db->nameQuote('#__viewlevels')." WHERE rules LIKE '%".$value."%'"to simply Code:"SELECT id, rules FROM `#__viewlevels` WHERE rules LIKE '%".$value."%'"back ticks are optional but anyway. Some Joomla 1.7 setups (eg. default) will be fine with this but just in case.I found HTML validity errors. It is ampersand error in cloud link part "...?option=com _search&searchw ord=...". I use little hack (repair) in file ..modules/mod_j oesworlcloud/he lper.php at line 140 replace str_replace('&' ;'&',trim($ params->get('pa ramSEARCHURL')) ) instead of original trim($params->g et('paramSEARCH URL')). And now is HTML without validity errors.
Is this idea usable? I belive yes.
Lada
Yes the default install actually installs as valid XHTML. The reason being is that when you save parameters in Joomla! CMS, the Joomla system will format your "&" and convert this to "&".
I mentioned in an earlier comment, the only way round this was to replace "&" with "&amp;". This error can be fixed without a core hack by simply replacing the ampersand in the Search URL parameter with "&amp;" (without the double-quotes)
I may use something similar to your code but it isn't very universal because in your solution, a W3C savvy person will type "?option=com_se arch&Se archWord=" as their parameter value. Also I know it's a typo but str_replace won't accept the semi-colon as the delimiter between 1st and 2nd parameter.
Thank you for the input though!
Thanks in advance,
~Mark
Thanks for your message. It should work as an upgrade. Download v1.6.7 and install as per usual. Go into the module parameters and Save the module even if you haven't made any changes. Let me know if there are any problems.
Kind Regards,
Joe
A rare question which I ask myself a lot. The solution that I created for myself was to be able to specify a minimum word length.
On my own personal website the minimum word length is 6, this encompasses the topics that I cover on my personal website such as Joomla, Business, Intelligence, Autohotkey, Mediawiki...
If I reduced the minimum character length to 3 or 4, then I would get the problem you described in your post. The module doesn't do anything with relevance, it takes the most frequently used words from your Joomla articles/titles and displays these in the module.
I hope that answers your question.
Kind Regards,
Joe
Yep, that answers it. In theory this extension is good. But relevance is what I need more than frequency of word usage.
That's actually what Google tries to do as a search engine - bring relevant listings. And we would need the same with a tag cloud.
If you can ever figure out a way to find more relevant words for the cloud, you'd have a winner in me.
So I guess for now, the only true way is to write your own tags.
I kinda see what you mean by relevance. This module just gives the summary of what your website is about.
I have been thinking of making a version which looks at word frequency per article. I have been watching other tag modules for Wordpress sites that have become really complex and they rely on tags that are relevant in the opinion of the author.
Word frequency modules like this one can even surprise the author :) I don't even know why I'm justifying this module. It was created for a client who didn't want to spend time setting up tags. I put it up on this site for fun and it's my most downloaded/comm ented on module...?
Kind Regards,
Joe
It seems to me that the tags are the same on every page. How can i configure it to show different tags on each article?
Thank you for your post.
This module is a word frequency module rather than a tag manager. I've been considering making a newer version which looks at frequency per article but otherwise no, you're right, they are the same tags on every page. This is because I needed a module where the client doesn't have to spend time setting up meta data and tags. This module takes the words most used in your site and says this is what your website is about.
I hope that answers your question.
Kind Regards,
Joe
I have case-sensitive 'no' but I'm getting duplicate words. In the changelog I see that there is a bug fix for this in the 1.6 series; could you port this back to the 1.5 module?
Thanks for your post. Bit baffled as I thought I'd fixed this for my module version 1.5.3.1. I have sent you a separate e-mail with a modified version with some other fixes I overlooked that exist in my Joomla 1.6+ versions.
Please try it out and let me know how it goes. Thank you!
Kind Regards,
Joe
Thanks.
I don't know I'm afraid. I never thought of controlling the search extension, is that through the URL? the search component itself is just joomla but the module just has links to the search.
Having a quick look at the joomla docs, I haven't found any URL passed parameter feature but I'll have a harder look when I can. Maybe it's just a setting in the Joomla Admin Panel.
Code:
?option=com_search&view=search
NTS: view
Joe
I love your products!
Alison
I really like your extension, thank you for it.
I have just one question for you: can the module generate tags from the article's meta-data instead of the article's content? That would be great!
I suppose so. At the moment it just scans the title, introtext fields. This is simply a matter of extending it to the meta_key and meta_desc fields within the database query.
I will make a note to include this in future versions.
Kind Regards,
Joe
Thanks.
Davide from Italy
I must have lost your email or this message somehow because I remember reading it and saying I'll reply later...
Currently the word cloud module has to be unique or it will break W3C validation. It should still work on the site but you may need to survive with just one. I have plans to change this as I have done to my other modules (I never imagined other people wanting to display my modules more than once on the same page).
Hopefully I'll remember to address this in a future version.
Kind Regards,
Joe
I have made a multi-language website (Joomla 1.7). The word cloud module only takes words from the dutch part of the site. I have created a 2nd module specially for the UK part of the website, but it continues to only show dutch words.
Everything else works in multi-language.
Please help.
Thanks,
Idso.
From what I can see the script is working properly on your site. Have you specified specific categories for this module to show?
Strangely enough, I looked at having the module display different languages, but in the end I opted to have it display ALL (defined by * in Joomla 1.6 or greater). Only J16 or greater supports this new field (lang), but I still don't see why the module doesn't see them.
The module sees all articles or at least everything in the database "#__content" where "#_" is the prefix of your tables. Are your articles in duplicates? As in are there the Dutch and then English versions, or are just some in either language? It is possible you have more Dutch articles then English ones in which case it's likely to have mostly Dutch words in the module.
Anyway, food for thought. Please feel free to reply to this post or contact me via the website.
Kind Regards,
Joe
All articles are duplicated in both languages and I have a Dutch and an English category. You are correct that there are more Dutch than English articles, but currently there is not a single English word that shows up.
I read somewhere else that multiple versions of the module is currently not supported. Does that mean that if I delete one of the modules it will work ?
Thanks,
Idso.
I thought the only reason it's not currently supported when it's on the same page more than once, was due to a W3C validation error and not really a functional one.
You can try unpublishing one module but I don't see why that would be the problem.
If your articles do not share the same category (so English and Dutch in the same category) then you can tell one module to only include Dutch articles and another to only include English articles.
Another test is to switch "Debug Mode" to "On" and make it show more words (including the word count) and hopefully some English ones will appear. Which will tell you why only Dutch words may be appearing.
The module is not currently programmed to understand different languages, only to display all foreign language characters. Joomla 1.6 and later have introduced the language field which would be good to use as I've had some requests from people using JoomFish.
I think your best bet is to switch debug mode on and increase the number of words to display. You can then make a perhaps more accurate decision to adjust exactly what words should show.
Kind Regards,
Joe
Great module and thanks for the excellent support.
Idso.
I've installed your module in my site, I've configured all parameters in administration and... I get a blank module: no tags!
Please, can you check if I'm doing someting wrong or if there are problems with my server or site configuration?
I've left Display SQL query to Yes, if it could help...
db: 5.1.52, utf8_general_ci
PHP: 5.2.10, cgi-fcgi
Apache
Joomla 1.5.22
Let me know if you need other info.
Thanks
I wasn't able to see anything wrong with the debug code other than it seems to find some words. Would you be able to send a copy of your parameters for this module?
Joe :c)
i'm running a german site and in firefox all is okay. in ie9 the german 'umlaute' like Ö make the searchsite to not transfer the whole word to the search box.
any idea?
thx in adv.
eao
i gave it to myself. the & was encoded wrongly. i just used a stripped down seaxrch-url entry without any other params and dont need a & this way. working fine now
Sorry I missed ur post. This module is meant to preserve the accents on most languages so the umlaut should display. However, yes you're right, if the letter is encoded into a HTML entity the this module won't display it. So ‰ is not the same as directly keying in "e".
In recent releases the ampersand has been encoded to trick joomla during setup as well as conform to w3c validation.
Hope that clears it up, even if you already fixed it.
Joe
on my 1.5 Joomla website I am using JWC 1.5.0, and it works fine. Now I have tried to install the latest version 1.5.3.2 on a test machine, and I have a problem with the minimum font size. Although it is set to "12", the cloud shows extremely small, almost invisible words. Is there a solution for that?
Thanks in advance,
Stefan
i am running the latest moduleversion on a joomla 2.51 site. Is it compatible to 2.51? Because everything works! BUT i dont get the cloud-like-look ing. Every word has the same size and appereance? Any advice?
TIA geo
Close to the reason...Here is what i did:
I just want 15 Words that i put in the Keyword Inclusion List and make it case sensitive. That is what triggers the words to come out at the same size/look. Is there a way to bring variation to that 15 words, too?
One other thing: Is there a way to include "R&D". Cause right now that "&" doesn´t work...
Thank you for your help!
Kind Regards geo
Only by letting the cloud generate the words, then copying these and pasting them in the "inclusion list" and then adding R&D though I don't remember whether the script will complain as it doesn't like anything other than letters and numbers.
Joe
Version 1.6.8 works on Joomla 2.5.1 which I have running at http://demo.joellipman.com/joomla25 with font-size variations. Are you able to send me a link or perhaps a screenshot of your parameters so I can see what's different?
Kind Regards,
Joe
thank you for your answer. here are some pics/links from the backend:
http://s7.directupload.net/file/d/2821/cjjxxrke_jpg.htm
http://s7.directupload.net/file/d/2821/fxl68idu_jpg.htm
http://s7.directupload.net/file/d/2821/mcg9r6ar_jpg.htm
http://s1.directupload.net/file/d/2821/owr655cp_jpg.htm
http://s1.directupload.net/file/d/2821/abyygupx_jpg.htm
TIA geo
I have replicated this on my Joomla 2.5.2 site. It occurred to me that the (configuration > ) "how many words" to display is also important. Set this to the number of words in your inclusion list (15?) set this to about 5.
Hope that fixes it!
Joe
Many thanks for the updated notes here that it's tested on 2.5 - just getting into a couple new builds and came over to get my updated must have mods from you :)
Thanks for all you do!
Alison
Also how do you change the colors? thanks!
B-
You could only replicate that if you use the inclusion list but it isn't a real representation of your most popular words. Their site uses tagging where all keywords per article are entered in manually.
The color can be changed by updating to the latest version of my module (wasn't in early versions) and changing the module parameter "Word Text Color". You can use any valid CSS color name (eg. "White" or "#fff"). Here's a link to some more colors to get you started: http://www.w3schools.com/cssref/css_colornames.asp
Hope that helps,
Kind Regards,
Joe
I very like you module Joes Word Cloud. Using always when making site by Joomla!
I found a flaw: all links/words in module rendered as flat text composed with param 'Search URL'. It's not SEF frendly.
Tip for new versions: render all links/words through JRoute. This allows users adding Itemid parameter to 'Search URL' and get SEF link and assigned correct menu item!
P.S. Sorry for my broken English. But I think you understand this idea!
Thanks for that tip. I'm currently upgrading my website and all my downloads so I'll definitely try your solution. A lot of people mentioned the SEF issue and although I override it in my installs, I've realised I cannot expect others to do the same. Your solution seems to be the easiest!
Thanks again.
Joe
I have installed your module on a beez 5 template where I changed the header. The module works but when I click on tag words the site reopens with the original Beez 5 header instead.
I cannot understand how to resolve this.
Please help!
What does the tag word link look like? Also note that templates in Joomla 2.5 can be assigned per item (really annoying) so is the search assigned to a certain template?
Kind Regards,
Joe
// Debug
1 of 47 word(s)
47 valid data row(s) of 47 total row(s).
[SELECT title, introtext FROM `#__content` WHERE state=1]
// Word Count
// Development
Array Testing...
And nothing else.
I am running Joomla 2.5.1
here is the url http://dev.agileise.com/s/siem
Clearly I've done something wrong.
Thanks
Chitra
// Debug
1 of 47 word(s)
47 valid data row(s) of 47 total row(s).
[SELECT title, introtext FROM `#__content` WHERE state=1]
// Word Count
// Development
Array Testing...
I don't suppose you can tell me what categories you have selected in the module parameters?
Also it seems the module only found 47 words which isn't many and may not fit the conditions you specify (eg. minimum 5 characters, maximum 10 characters, etc...)
If you could send me a screenshot of what the settings you have set for this module, I'll be able to help further.
Thanks for the feedback!
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