Extension:Nimbus

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:

IMPORTANT: each variable must be set on a separate line. one variable per line.

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 (Please note: This link will lead you to download version 2.2 (as of Nov 2011) which is not compatible with the Nimbus extension. What you want is the old version 1.4 (any <=1.5 should do) which you can find here )
 * tagcloud.swf
 * Nimbus.php (see below)

Other resources
2013-01-15 extension code review