Thursday, 14 January 2010
"Tag clouds are the work of the devil"
The title was a quote taken from myself. As you may have guessed I have been struggling with carrying out the tag cloud feature on my website. But at last I have made a major breakthrough. To start the day off I thought I would need to change the table in the database that I had set up and so decided to delete the table. Then after setting up the new table (losing all the entries that I had submitted in the process) and it did not work, breaking the website in the process I thought I had made a major mistake. I ended up deleting the new table that I had made and created the same table that I started with. So after alot of frustration and wasted time, I just couldn't figure out how to get the tag cloud script working properly. I then posted my code on the website of the tutorial I was following, which can be found here. The guy who wrote the tutorial, Andrew Johnson, helped me out alot, and showed me where I was going wrong with the script. So after a hard days work, I have finally gotten the tags submitted into the database, then increments when the same tag is entered more than once. The more times the tag has been entered the bigger the tag will look in the tag cloud. This has been a big break through after alot of hard work finally paying off and help from Andrew Johnson who I greatly appreciate for helping me so much.
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