HTML::TagCloud(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation HTML::TagCloud(3)NAMEHTML::TagCloud - Generate An HTML Tag Cloud
SYNOPSIS
my $cloud = HTML::TagCloud->new;
$cloud->add($tag1, $url1, $count1);
$cloud->add($tag2, $url2, $count2);
$cloud->add($tag3, $url3, $count3);
my $html = $cloud->html_and_css(50);
DESCRIPTION
The HTML::TagCloud module enables you to generate "tag clouds" in HTML.
Tag clouds serve as a textual way to visualize terms and topics that
are used most frequently. The tags are sorted alphabetically and a
larger font is used to indicate more frequent term usage.
Example sites with tag clouds: <http://www.43things.com/>,
<http://www.astray.com/recipes/> and
<http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/>.
This module provides a simple interface to generating a CSS-based HTML
tag cloud. You simply pass in a set of tags, their URL and their count.
This module outputs stylesheet-based HTML. You may use the included CSS
or use your own.
CONSTRUCTOR
new
The constructor takes one optional argument:
my $cloud = HTML::TagCloud->new(levels=>10);
if not provided, levels defaults to 24
METHODS
add
This module adds a tag into the cloud. You pass in the tag name, its
URL and its count:
$cloud->add($tag1, $url1, $count1);
$cloud->add($tag2, $url2, $count2);
$cloud->add($tag3, $url3, $count3);
tags($limit)
Returns a list of hashrefs representing each tag in the cloud, sorted
by alphabet. Each tag has the following keys: name, count, url and
level.
css
This returns the CSS that will format the HTML returned by the html()
method with tags which have a high count as larger:
my $css = $cloud->css;
html($limit)
This returns the tag cloud as HTML without the embedded CSS (you should
use both css() and html() or simply the html_and_css() method). If a
limit is provided, only the top $limit tags are in the cloud, otherwise
all the tags are in the cloud:
my $html = $cloud->html(200);
html_and_css($limit)
This returns the tag cloud as HTML with embedded CSS. If a limit is
provided, only the top $limit tags are in the cloud, otherwise all the
tags are in the cloud:
my $html_and_css = $cloud->html_and_css(50);
AUTHOR
Leon Brocard, "<acme@astray.com>".
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2005-6, Leon Brocard
This module is free software; you can redistribute it or modify it
under the same terms as Perl itself.
perl v5.14.1 2006-11-07 HTML::TagCloud(3)
