This discussion allows users and administrators to add tags initiating a new discussion. Existing discussions can also be tagged either by editing the first comment in a discussion thread or from the 'all discussions' view.

The extension also presents both recent and full history tag clouds to highlight the most commonly used tags.

Version History
0.3.1 Addresses a MySQL error when a user is not logged in

0.3.0 Initial release

I also love this extension. It's a nice supplement to the category system. Any chance of this being added to the core code (with a search option, manage tags through settings, ...)?

The Phrase "All Discussion Tags" is aligned to the right...

http://www.investorsbull.com/extension.php?PostBackAction=DiscussionTags

Any thoughts?

Simply changing .ContentInfo would cause different problems, e.g. distorting the position of 'Bottom of Page'. As far as I can see, the extension uses o not yet defined CSS class 'ContentInfo Top BlogsTitle'. Maybe you can use that one.

Try ADDING to the bottom of vanilla.css (untested, I'm lazy)

.ContentInfo.Top.BlogsTitle {
text-align:left;
}

Scratch... see that was already suggested... Did you try it?

Has anyone figured a way to move the tags listing on the comments page to display inline under the first discussion as opposed to the panel? Or even how to display "Discussion Tags" the way "Recent Tags" looks, inline. Right now I have users that at first glance are confused at it's resemblance of the "Who's Online" extension.

iternity wrote:
"The Phrase 'All Discussion Tags' is aligned to the right ..."

I think I've hacked this into place without breaking anything. ;-)

In the DiscussionTags default.php file I added the following after line 233:

$Head->AddStyleSheet('extensions/DiscussionTags/style.css');
It now looks something like this:

if ($Context->SelfUrl == 'extension.php' AND ForceIncomingString('PostBackAction','') == 'DiscussionTags') {
$Head->AddStyleSheet('extensions/DiscussionTags/style.css');
$Context->PageTitle = 'Discussion Tags';
This forces the DiscussionTags style.css file to be called on the page in question (as an aside: I think its okay to move the earlier identical reference to this position, rather than creating a second reference — but I'll leave that for you to decide). At any rate, we do this because the style.css file was being called on the Discussions page, but not the DiscussionTags page (now it's called on both).

Further down the default.php file (right towards the end), there are some "echo '...blah...';" writes.

I changed mine to look like this (the first line is just for reference):

$min = 0;
echo '<div class="ContentInfo"><h1>All Discussion Tags</h1></div>';
And even further down, I replaced the remaining writes with:

echo '<div id="BackToDiscuss"><a href="index.php">&laquo; Back to Discussion view</a></div>';
Then in the style.css file, I added:

/* Fixer-Upper */

#ExtensionPage .ContentInfo h1 {
text-align: left !important;
padding: 20px 10px 20px 0;
}

#BackToDiscuss {
padding-top: 10px;
}
It'd probably be an idea to use the exact same classes/ids used by Vanilla. Also, we could reduce the number of divs being utilised pretty easily. I would have looked into it ... (but am lazy). #BackToDiscuss was off the top of my head and is probably not ideal ... However, I'm just arguing semantics here. It works just fine.

I also fixed up the sidebar from peeking through the Soulscape theme margins, but that was a no-brainer (convert to unordered list).

So, I think that's everything I did. You get the general idea, anyway.

Since there was never a reaction about the performance i have rewritten this plugin a bit to increase performance to an acceptable level.
I will modify it so, it can be installed over the original plugin and post it here.

(indication of increase,
- with no plugin and 10 users active the discussions page with 30 discussions loaded in 3-5 secs.
- with original plugin, and 10 users active the discussions page with 30 discussions loaded in 15-20 secs.
- with my modification and 10 users active the discussions page with 30 discussions loaded in 4-5 secs.

Well it really only was the discussion page with the tags, that slows things down, if i turn off my tweaked page, and turn on the original, load times increase drastically.

I can't test it with no users logged in, there are always at least 7-15 users logged in 24/7.

The problem is in the sql of the DiscussionTagList. For every line a sql query with a join on 2 tables is called, and the full result set is parsed row by row. This is done without using the SQL-builder. using the sql builder and caching the tags, so they can be fetched in one single value single row result for each line has given me enough speed increase so people don't notice any difference with it turned on or off.

Maybe it is my setup, it is running on minimal hardware, and the sql server is not on the same server as the website.

Hey folks, sorry to be absent for a while. I've not been actively developing features at Houseblogs.net for a few months so I've been here less often.

As dan39 suggested, we've got lots of tags on our own install and we aren't seeing 15-20 second load times. We did have general slowness issues on a shared hosting account earlier this year but moving to a dedicated server addressed most of that.

I am interested in ideas like the ones above that speed up the database calls, though. little_peet, if you post your code here I can have the developer who helps (I don't code the extensions myself) me look at it.

Anyone....?

Hi, I downloaded a fresh version, then removed the old discussion tags from the extensions folder. After uploading the new folder and enabling it, I get the same error as above.

Note I am on localhost - MAMP.

The tags work, as in they display fine and I can click on the tag links and it works fine. Its only the "view all tags" link that brings the error I mention above.

the sense and realization of extension is cool, but what about of deleting old, unsuccesfull tags?

I have exactly the same problem as # jstubbs - can't view all tags,fatal error .. vanilla 1.1.4. In previous version everything was OK.

It looks exactly that.
http://localhost/extension.php?PostBackAction=DiscussionTags

I dont want to give tagging-rights to all groups. Is there a way to give only special groups the ability to tag their discussions?

Because one can add tags with whitespaces (which is great) I find it neccessary to comma-separate the tags. I accomplished this by changing line 228 in default.php to
$toreturn .= ' <a style="font-size:'.$fontsize.'%; text-decoration:none; color:'.$color.';" href="index.php?TagFilter='.$Value[2].'">'.$Value[0].','.'</a> ';

I also want all tags to be lowercase, so I inserted
$Value = mb_strtolower($Value); below line 58 in ajax.php (and in default.php below line 133 - but this doesn't seem to neccessary).

Anyone have issues with this and FriendlyURLs?

Basically, the code is written with index.php The problem is that it does not take into account the friendly rewrite.

It's when you click on a Discussion title itself that Discussion tags get kind of screwed up. The will show on the page, but the show all tags, does not work.

I'll keep testing and see if I can find a fix, but if someone else has, that would be great.

The errors I'm getting aren't caused by FriendlyURLs or any other extension, so I've deduced that this extension just doesn't like 1.1.4. In addition to getting Hamed's errors in other weird places, there's also a big fat MYSQL join error when clicking on any tag link (as shown here with some privacy edits):


Notice: Undefined index: DiscussionHasTags in /home/.path/user/domain.com/library/Framework/Framework.Functions.php on line 549

Notice: Undefined index: DiscussionHasTags in /home/.path/user/domain.com/library/Framework/Framework.Class.SqlBuilder.php on line 80

Notice: Undefined index: DiscussionHasTags in /home/.path/user/domain.com/library/Framework/Framework.Class.SqlBuilder.php on line 263

A fatal, non-recoverable error has occurred
Technical information (for support personel):

Error Message
An error occurred while retrieving discussions.
Affected Elements
DiscussionManager.GetDiscussionList();

The error occurred on or near: You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'left join LUM_CategoryBlock cb on t.CategoryID = cb.CategoryID and cb.UserID = ' at line 1

For additional support documentation, visit the Lussumo Documentation website at: lussumo.com/docs


I have no clue on how to fix this or update the extension. Any help would be very much appreciated as tags are a big part of my community's functionality.