Extension:Nimbus

What can this extension do?
The Nimbus extension returns a (user defined) number of Category (or Requested Pages) links, and displays them in font sizes relative to the number of links in those Categories/Pages. The returned list can be optionally animated when "Flash" is available to the browser. This extension serves as a direct replacement for the "WikiCategoryCloud" extension. All default settings can be overwritten by Mediawiki page. Based on "WikiCategoryTagCloud" by Daniel Friesen and "WP-Cumulus Port to mediawiki" by Luc.

Thanks to Wikimini, George Alexandru Dudău and others for Requested Pages suggestions and modifications.

Note: Fonts displayed are flash images. Latin characters are pre-loaded and should immediately work. Instructions for loading additional characters or sets are on Roy Tanck's site.

Usage
All variables have "reasonable" defaults, which can be overwritten on the MediaWiki page.

Test MediaWiki implementation:

Options
The full set of options which can be passed from the Wiki Page are:

Installation
To install this extension, add the following to LocalSettings.php: require_once("$IP/extensions/Nimbus/Nimbus.php");

You must have in the Nimbus directory: These files are read & executed, set permissions to 755. From the command line in the Nimbus directory type: chmod 755 Nimbus/*
 * swfobject.js
 * tagcloud.swf
 * Nimbus.php (see below)

Demonstration
A Demonstration is available at wiki.gis.com and also:


 * www.debatrix.org
 * www.somaticjourney.com