Zend_Tag_Cloud Screencast

Friday, April 24, 2009

Hey folks, I just managed it to get the screencast about Zend_Tag_Cloud done. There's a bit noise left in the audio which I could not remove because the sound was getting too low, but it is still fine and watchable. The entire file is about 100MB in size and encoded as DivX/MP3. I also uploaded it to blip.tv for those who prefer to watch screencasts in their browser. Have fun watching and I appreciate any feedback for further screencasts.

Download the screencast
Watch the screencast on blip.tv
Download the screencast sample code

Comments to this article

  • Avatar of Marko Korhonen Reply Marko Korhonen Friday, April 24, 2009 5:42 AM

    Thank you, now I have my tag clouds flying =)

  • Avatar of Marco Reply Marco Friday, April 24, 2009 9:29 AM

    Good job, Ben!

  • Avatar of Ryan Mauger Reply Ryan Mauger Friday, April 24, 2009 3:03 PM

    Nice work!
    Well done for explaining the decorators!

  • Avatar of andrew Reply andrew Friday, April 24, 2009 5:39 PM

    Watched the screencast. Good job.

    Are there methods available to generate the cloud by passing in an entire content body and having the class automatically parse, tokenize, and calculate the weights and return a generated cloud? Or better yet, passing in an entire HTML page and having the method strip, parse, etc...

  • Avatar of Ben Scholzen 'DASPRiD' Reply Ben Scholzen 'DASPRiD' Friday, April 24, 2009 6:24 PM

    What would you as "tags" in a content body / HTML page? Every single word? And well, if so, this would be the job of an additional Zend_Tag component, and not of Zend_Tag_Cloud ;)

  • Avatar of Dado Reply Dado Saturday, May 2, 2009 9:43 AM

    Nice work on this. But IMHO, seeing that generating the tag list is a non-trivial task, a new functionality inside Zend_Tag namespace should be developed for tagging with persistent storage adapters. Something along the lines of Freetag (http://code.google.com/p/freetag/), but inline with ZF.

  • Avatar of Pacek Reply Pacek Saturday, May 2, 2009 12:43 PM

    Really nice one, thx a lot!

  • Avatar of Ben Scholzen 'DASPRiD' Reply Ben Scholzen 'DASPRiD' Saturday, May 2, 2009 1:36 PM

    Dado, Zend_Tag will get more sub-components, one to manage Tags in a database. Just wait for 1.9 :).

  • Avatar of Manuel Reply Manuel Monday, May 4, 2009 12:10 PM

    When I cannot decompress the sample code (Linux / Mac OS X) It seems like there is a symbolic link (zend-tag-cloud -> /mnt/www/projects/zend-tag-cloud/) but not the real content...

    Thanks!

  • Avatar of Ben Scholzen 'DASPRiD' Reply Ben Scholzen 'DASPRiD' Monday, May 4, 2009 5:07 PM

    Whoops, nobody told me, thanks for the information, while fix it soon!

  • Avatar of alpeb Reply alpeb Friday, May 29, 2009 5:43 PM

    Thanks for the screencast Ben. Do you have any pointers on how to use the Zend_Tag_Taggable interface?

  • Avatar of Chris Reply Chris Sunday, May 31, 2009 12:49 PM

    Good job! What I'm missing is a way to add the 'rel="nofollow"' attribute to the anchor tag (without writing my own decorator)...

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